Hello there! I have recently bought 'amember 3.1.8'; done lot of customization in templates, various amember forms etc. Now this new release 3.1.9 is available. IF I go by the instructions for up-gradation posted here by 'alex', then I may lose the template customization. What is the correct way to handle upgradation when customization is involved? Does it require recustomise all the pages; or I have to take backup and reload my old files on the latest version? If yes, then which files needs to 'save' from old version? Please help out, asap Warm Regards Avinash
When you download upgrade package from your member's area you will see what files were changed in new version(upgrade package have only modified files) In some cases this is possible just to restore old files, but anyway I recommend to recustomize new files to avoid future issues.
Hi alex Thanks for replying. You mean to say, whenever 'amember' does upgradation-in future, every one who has done template customisaiton on their websites, needs to re-customise everything? If this is the case then there only 2 options availble for us a) Outsource any customisation of template etc to 'amember' itself, without tinkering the templates/header/footer on our own or b) Don't upgrade at all, continue with old version. But i think second option will be sucidical in the long run. What do you think?
Usually to change aMember look and make it the same as your site you need to modify only header.html, footer.html, and CSS. These files are not changed often so you can restore these files from old versions. For other files this depends on exact situation.