Update Vellure

New versions of Vellure bring fixes and new features. Each version comes as a new ZIP file, which you install beside the one you have and publish when it's ready.

Check your version

Your version is shown in the theme editor under Theme settings → Theme info. See what each version changed in the Release notes.

Update

1. Upload the new ZIP file the way you installed Vellure: in Online Store, under Draft themes, click Import theme, then Upload zip file. The new version appears under Draft themes, and your live store doesn't change.
2. Bring your settings over. Shopify doesn't copy them into an uploaded theme, so copy the files that hold them:
   1. On your current Vellure, open ⋯ → Edit code, open config/settings_data.json and copy everything in it.
   2. On the new version, open ⋯ → Edit code, open the same file, replace everything in it with what you copied, and click Save.
   3. Do the same for each file in templates that you changed, and for header-group.json, footer-group.json and overlay-group.json in sections.
3. Click Edit theme on the new version, and check your most important pages.
4. When you are happy with it, click Publish.

What comes with you

Comes with those files	Needs care
Theme settings, such as colors, fonts and buttons	Templates you created: in the new version's code, click Add a new template with the same name, then paste in the old one's content
Your sections and blocks, their order and their settings	Changes made to the code, which you make again by hand
App embeds and app blocks	Wording changed in Edit default theme content, which you change again
	Your own CSS, if the parts of the page it styles have changed

Your products, collections, menus, pages and blog posts belong to your store, not to the theme, so an update doesn't touch them.

Tip

Keep the previous version under Draft themes for a week or two after you publish the update, so you can switch back if something looks wrong.