Title: Update theme
Last modified: November 27, 2017

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# Update theme

 *  [seykom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seykom/)
 * (@seykom)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-theme-11/)
 * Hi,
 * our customer hasn´t updateed the theme for a long time. We added the Visual Composer
   to build the sites. Now most functions don´t work anymore. If I would update 
   to the latest version, would the problems be solved? Or would the content be 
   deleted?
 * Thanks for an answer
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fupdate-theme-11%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Subrata Sarkar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subrataemfluence/)
 * (@subrataemfluence)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-theme-11/#post-9725405)
 * This is very hard to tell what will exactly happen. The best possible solution
   could be to first let your customer know about the situation and what is required.
   You should not take the decision of updating stuffs on a live website of your
   own. You should let your customer know about the downside of such an action since
   he did not update the theme for a long time as you have mentioned.
 * Next, you need a development platform for this to implement and test everything(
   e.g. demo.brechtgebaeudereinigung.de), make all adjustments that may come up 
   and once you and your customer is happy with everything, move things to production
   environment.
 * However, the theme developer knows about it the best and they can give you the
   best solution, but the minimum you should do is taking backup of the site and
   database before going for an update. Since you did not mention exactly how long
   theme was not updated it is hard to tell how much “breaking changes” you will
   end up with after the update.
 * So, the first and foremost thing is to take backup of everything before going
   for the update, then create a development environment and test things there.
 * Hope this gives you some light about how to proceed.

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