Updating Your Themes & Plugins
Elegant Themes products can be updated normally through the WordPress update system.
When new versions of our themes or plugins become available, update notifications will appear in the Dashboard > Updates page of your WordPress Dashboard and within the Themes & Plugins manager.
It is important to keep your themes and plugins updated to ensure compatibility with the latest WordPress version, keep your website secure, and take advantage of the latest and greatest features!
Before updating, you must authenticate your Elegant Themes subscription by inputting your Username and API Key into the Updates tab of your theme or plugin settings.
Note: Only members with active Elegant Themes accounts have access to the latest versions of our products.
Your Username is the username you use when logging in to ElegantThemes.com, and your API Key can be found by logging into your Elegant Themes account and clicking on the Account → Username and API key link.
Once you have authenticated your account, you can click the update link when you receive an update notification to update your theme or plugin automatically.
Update Notifications
When new updates become available for any of our themes or plugins, a notification will appear in the Dashboard → Updates page of your website's WordPress Dashboard.
Authenticating Your Membership
Before you can update your theme or plugin, you must first authenticate your Elegant Themes subscription.
To authenticate your account, you will be asked to input two pieces of information into your theme or plugin settings panel:
Your Username
Your API Key.
Note: if you don't have any API key(s) created yet, you can create one and assign a label for it - this label is for your own information, in case you have multiple API keys created for different websites.
Once you have copied your API Key, you will need to use it to authenticate your account by pasting it into your theme or plugin options page.
Log in to your website and go to WordPress Dashboard → Tools → Monarch Settings.
Click on the Padlock icon and paste in your ElegantThemes Username and API key:
Finally, click on the Save button.
Once you have entered your credentials, you are now ready to update your theme.
Click on the Dashboard → Updates tab and update the Bloom plugin normally using the WordPress update interface.
If you do not see any update notifications or you receive an authentication error when updating, try waiting a bit and then check back later. Sometimes WordPress will cache update notifications, and it can take some time for them to appear correctly.