When rolling back a theme is it necessary to restore database as well?

  • Hi,

    I wonder what are the best practices for restoring a site/database from a backup?

    The way how theme update works is quite foggy to me. If I update e.g. bloated, commercial theme with all the bells and whistles, is it best to assume that the update makes also some database changes?

    For example:
    Let’s say that I update my theme, but the new version is buggy and I want to roll back.
    Would it suffice to restore only my theme folder, or is it better to restore database as well?

    Which would be the right order? Theme or database first?

    Thank you for your thoughts

    Ted

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  • Hi,
    You should restore the theme files first because new update always changed the theme
    files.
    Thanks
    Mohammad

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

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    is it necessary to restore database as well?

    Nope. ??

    Thread Starter TT74

    (@tt74)

    I assume that you both have more knowledge in this matter than I have, so could you answer this:

    Assume that we want to roll back a bloated, commercial theme which has e.g. commercial slider bundled in it.So each theme update has also a newer version of the slider packed in.

    If I look into my database file I can see references that has something to do with that slider.

    So if I would roll back only the theme files, wouldn’t the database still have some information about the newer slider version? Wouldn’t this cause problems?

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