How to Update Bimber WordPress Theme on SiteGround

The first thing you’ll want to do is go to your theme forest account. You’re going to log in just like usual. Then, go over to downloads, and you’ll see all the things you’ve downloaded from Theme Forest.
Scroll down to your Bimber theme, click the download button, and click all files and documents. It’ll take a second to download. 

So now I will double-click this to extract the file onto my desktop. If you open this up, you’ll see a few items. We have the extracted Bimber and extracted Bimber child theme, the zip Bimber, the zip Bimber child theme, and the changelog, which will tell you all the new things from all of the updates that have been released. 

The next thing you’re going to do is go to your Site Grounds account and log in. Then, go to the website you’re trying to update. Click on Site Tools. Then go to file manager.

Then go to Public HTML > WP content Themes. The two themes reflect the two themes we have installed on this website.

All right. So the next thing that I want to do is to rename the old theme “Bimber theme old” to avoid name duplication issues.

Next, click File Upload. It already opened up this file for me, but if it didn’t, what you would do is you would double click this one and then just drag the Bimber theme into this section and just click open. Remember, you’re uploading the Bimber zip, not uploading the child theme or the unzipped version. 

We have our Bimber zip here. If you double-click it, nothing happens. You have to right-click it and go to extract.

So now we have Bimber right here. But don’t close the video just yet because we’re not done yet. For some reason, when extracting this file here, the real file is inside of this file. See, I just double-clicked it, and this is the file that contains everything we need. 

So how can we fix this? Go into the file that was just extracted and rename it again. The point of doing that is so that I could drag this file up to my theme’s folder. 

The correct file should be named Bimber theme in your folder. How can we verify that? I double-click it, and here are all the files that I need. 

Now, I’m going to verify this by going into the backend of WordPress and ensuring that it’s up to the new 8.3.1. If I double-click this, you’ll see that all the files are in there, and we didn’t touch the child theme, so we’re not to worry about that. 

If you recall, we were running version 8.3, which you see right here. Now, when I refresh this page, it changes to 8.3.1.

If you’re getting an error that says, “Bimber child team doesn’t have a parent, please delete the child theme,” or something like that. It’s because you didn’t go into the Bimber theme after extracting it and dragging the real theme from inside. Once you do that, the error you see here should disappear.