Newsplus:Upgrade to version 7.x-5.1.1 for Drupal 7

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This document will guide you to upgrade your Drupal 7 News+ 7.x-5.0.1 installation to News+ 7.x-5.1.1 for Drupal 7.

The steps that are tagged [Commerce] are relevant only to the News+ Commerce 7.x distribution and should be skipped if you are running the simple News+ 7.x distribution. The News+ Commerce 7.x distribution is only available in the News+ Pro & News+ Enterprise products. You can find out more about the News+ Commerce distribution at the News+ product page http://www.morethanthemes.com/?q=themes/newsplus

Prepare your workbench

1. Create a temporary installation of Drupal 7 News+ 7.x-5.1.1 using our installation profile. You will use this as a reference to guide you.

Backup

1. Backup everything.
2. Just in case, make sure you backed up everything =) (besides, it's always a good idea).

Put your website in maintenance mode

1. Login to your Drupal installation as administration user
2. Navigate to admin/config/development/maintenance
3. Enable the "Put site into maintenance mode" option
4. Save your configuration

Update extra modules

News+ comes with several extra modules required to achieve its functionality. The following process will update them to the latest (by the time these lines are written) version, as marked below:

• Update Libraries (libraries) module to version 7.x-2.3

1. Locate the extra modules folder of your site, usually at [sites/all/modules].
2. Delete the libraries folder that belongs to the News+ distribution. If there are any extra module folders that have been installed by you later, you should leave them untouched or update them later manually, which is beyond the scope of this guide
3. Copy the latest version of the deleted module from your temporary installation.
4. Run the update.php file calling a url like http://www.example.com/update.php or http://www.example.com/test_site/update.php, if your site is located under a subdirectory.

[Commerce] Update Commerce modules

News+ comes with several extra Commerce modules required to achieve its functionality. The following process will update them to the latest (by the time these lines are written) version, as marked bellow:

• [Commerce] Update Commerce (commerce) to version 7.x-1.13
• [Commerce] Update Entity (entity) to version 7.x-1.7
• [Commerce] Update Inline entity form (inline_entity_form) to version 7.x-1.8

1. Locate the extra modules folder of your site, usually at [sites/all/modules/contrib].
2. Delete the folders commerce, entity, inline_entity_form that belong to the News+ distribution. If there are any extra module folders that have been installed by you later, you should leave them untouched or update them later manually, which is beyond the scope of this guide.
3. Copy the latest version of the deleted module from your temporary installation.
4. Run the update.php file calling a url like http://www.example.com/update.php or http://www.example.com/test_site/update.php, if your site is located under a subdirectory.

Update extra libraries

1. Locate the extra libraries folder of your site, usually at [sites/all/libraries].
2. Locate the extra libraries folder in your temporary installation. Usually at [sites/all/libraries]
3. Add the following files in your installation, using the corresponding source files from the temporary installation

• superfish/README
• superfish/VERSION

Patch your News+ theme files

1. Locate our theme folder in your temporary installation. Usually at [sites/all/themes/newsplus]
2. Locate our theme folder in your drupal 7 site. Usually at [sites/all/themes/newsplus]
3. Replace the following files or folders in your installation, using the corresponding source files from the temporary installation (folders should be first deleted and finally copied from your temp installation).

• newsplus.info
• style.css
• template.php

Clear all cached data

This step is important in order to force your template to be informed for the changes you have made in the template files.

To do this navigate to admin/config/development/performance and click the "Clear all caches" button

Disable maintenance mode

1. Navigate to admin/config/development/maintenance
2. Disable the "Put site into maintenance mode" option.
3. Save your configuration