Embroidelan review for Theme Updater & Backups | OOTS

May 12, 2017

NIGHTMARE!!! I installed the Updater App for two reasons; to ensure my theme (Responsive) was up-to-date and to try and fix a bug with my e-commerce site that developed overnight - because despite submitting a ticket for support no-one has got back to me from Out of the Sandbox Support Team! This came at a very bad time as I was running a special offer weekend and currently, visitors cannot checkout because the checkout button has magically disappeared! So, I installed the app in the hope that I could try and fix the problem myself. First, some customisation IS copied over when you update the theme. However, for all those considering whether to use this app, here is a list of what has not been copied over to the updated theme and I will have to do manually (not a quick fix then...and more hours required to invest in making the necessary changes); 1. Company logo and Favicon are not copied over 2. I installed the Multilingualizer translation tool to allow my website to be displayed in any language - the installation has not been copied over and my website is covered in text that looks like this "....EVERYDAY WEAR..ESSENTIELS DU QUOTIDIEN...." 3. Customise coding for the padding in the Header has not been copied across 4.The changes and translations made in 'Edit Language' have not been copied across - that is 13 tabs, pages long that I have to redo!!!! 5.Footer - Privacy Policy and Terms and Condition links have gone! 6. The formatting on Product Pages and Collections have not been copied across. 7. at this point I stopped looking for anything else...too depressing! For me, this update will cost me days or even weeks to manually make all the changes. When do I have time to do that??! I'm trying to run a business not repeat hours that I've already spent setting up my website. This is going to be a very gradual process! The only thing I am thankful for is that you old them version remains intact until you make the change to the updated version - and YOU can decide that. If you can avoid it, I would strongly suggest that you don't!!