How to update your Shopify theme

In order to provide a product that is constantly improved and adapted to our users needs all our themes are updated frequently. We put a lot of effort on keeping the code bug free, add new features and adapt the theme to Shopify platform changes. 

A frequent question that we receive on support is "how to update my theme without loosing any content that I currently have". Shopify platform improved this process in the last couple of years (after OS 2.0 was implemented) and now the process is much easier than before.

Please see this article from Shopify documentation were they explain in details the theme updating proces on the platform: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/os/using-themes/managing-themes/updating-themes.

As detailed in the linked article, custom changes in the theme original code are not copied and applied to the updated theme. In this case you can either manually transfer these codes in the new theme version (please note that you need to keep a changelog with all your edits) or use a dedicated app from Shopify App Store.

Please see this article we have where we recommend the "Theme Updater Plus" app that you might find useful.

For the manual transfer, please see the last part of this video tutorial starting with 7'12''

Note: the theme updating process is dependent on the Shopify platform and how this works. It is not something that we can control from our theme and this is general for any Shopify theme.