Losing customizations when upgrading from free to Pro

[Sandra Gambone]

I have used the free version of Pure & Simple, and like it very much. I just purchased and installed Pure & Simple Pro. I did not activate it. First I did the Live Preview.
I see my logo transferred OK, but all my colors are back to default, as well as blog settings, my header image is gone, and who knows what else.
I had hoped since I am using the same theme, just the Pro version of it, that these settings would have carried over.
What can I do to not lose everything I did on the free version?
I saw a mention of the plugin Customizer Export/Import for this issue with another theme, but this didn’t save colors, which is so basic I don’t understand the omission.

Thank-you for your help
Sandy

[Bidur]

Hello Sandra,

Thanks for contacting us!

The first thing is you always need to make a backup of your website before performing any upgrade or migration if you’ve done that.
If you’ve made changes to the theme files directly, without using a child theme or a plugin, those will be lost.
However if you’ve made changes from your customizer, using Customizer Export/Import plugin should work fine to import the changes back.
Had you succesfully imported the changes in the customizer? What steps had you followed?

Let us know.

Best Regards,
Bidur

[Bidur]

Hello Sandra,

Thanks for contacting us!

The first thing is you always need to make a backup of your website before performing any upgrade or migration if you’ve done that.
If you’ve made changes to the theme files directly, without using a child theme or a plugin, those will be lost.
However if you’ve made changes from your customizer, using Customizer Export/Import plugin should work fine to import the changes back.
Had you succesfully imported the changes in the customizer? What steps had you followed?

Let us know.

Best Regards,
Bidur

[Sandra Gambone]

Hello Bidur,

I did do a backup. I have played with the customizer backup again and I guess I used the wrong method to use the backup – I used the ‘upload backup’
button (because I had downloaded it I thought I needed to upload it). But then I tried the ‘revert to this backup’ button and that did work. For some reason I didn’t notice that button the first time.

Thank-you for your quick reply. I am all set now.
Sandy

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