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. 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 → Your API Key link.
Once you have authenticated your account, you can click the update link when you receive an update notification to automatically update your theme or plugin.
Once you have copied your API Key, you must use it to authenticate your account by pasting it into your theme or plugin options page.
Log in to your website's WordPress Dashboard and navigate to your theme or plugin options page. For Extra, this can be found by clicking the Extra → Theme Options link.
Click on the Updates tab.
Copy/paste your username into the Username field and the API Key into the API Key field. You should confirm that you have not copied any extra white spaces by mistake. Click save to complete the account authorization.
Click the Save button to complete the account authorization.
Click on the Dashboard → Updates link and update your theme or plugin normally using the WordPress update interface.
Note: If you do not see any update notifications or receive an authentication error when updating, try waiting a bit and then check back later. Sometimes WordPress will cache update notifications, which can take time to appear correctly.
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.
