Reply To: How do you upgrade to Optimal 1.3

No Child themes don’t have update notifications. That’s the Genesis Framework you’re probably thinking of.

The reason why child themes don’t have automatic updates is because some people make edits to the style.css file to change their design. If they received an automatic update it would overwrite all of those changes/design and replace the file with the newest version. So that’s why you would have to manually install the updated versions of child themes. The Genesis Framework has update notifications because most people don’t make edits to it since they use a child theme on top of it. Does that make sense?

Have you made any customizations to your css stylesheet? If not, then you can go ahead and download the newer version and replace it with your current install. Please make sure and backup/save a copy of your current theme and settings if you need to just in case something goes wrong (to be on the safe side).

You may already know all of this, but I wanted to post in case anyone else is wondering.

Let me know if you have any questions about this.