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Theme updates
Wonpa doesn't update in place. It ships as a ZIP file, so there is no update prompt in your Shopify admin and no button that upgrades the theme you already have. A new version installs as a separate theme, and your settings do not carry over to it.
That's because your customizations are stored in the theme, not in your store. Every setting and every piece of section content lives in a file inside the theme:
| What you edited | Where it's stored |
|---|---|
| Theme settings — colors, color schemes, typography, layout, cart thresholds, wholesale | config/settings_data.json |
| Homepage and other page section content | templates/*.json |
| Header, announcement bar, and mega menu content | sections/header-group.json |
| Footer content | sections/footer-group.json |
| Anything you edited in the code editor | the file you changed |
A fresh copy of Wonpa brings its own version of all of these. Installing it does not touch your current theme, but it also inherits nothing from it.
How to move to a new version
- Download the new Wonpa ZIP.
- In Online Store → Themes, select Add theme and upload the ZIP. It arrives unpublished, alongside your current theme.
- Re-apply your theme settings and rebuild your section content on the new copy.
- Preview the new theme and click through your homepage, a collection, a product page, and the cart.
- Publish it only once the preview looks right. Keep the old theme in your library so you can republish it if something is off.
Your live storefront keeps running on the old theme for every step up to publishing.
What to write down first
Before you start, open your current theme's editor and capture the settings you'd hate to re-derive:
- Your color values. Theme settings → Colors holds the global swatches, and each of the four color schemes has its own five colors. Screenshot the panel or copy the hex codes out.
- Your font choices and size percentages from Theme settings → Typography.
- Your corner style, page width, and page margin from Theme settings → Layout.
- Your cart threshold amounts and wholesale settings.
- The section order on your homepage, and any copy you wrote directly into a section rather than pulling from a product.
Careful
Direct code edits definitely do not carry across. If you changed a .liquid file, an asset, or a translation file, diff your current theme against the stock ZIP and keep those changes somewhere outside the theme so you can re-apply them. Shopify's Edit code view and git both work for this.
A faster alternative: if you only need one or two fixes from a new release, apply those specific file changes to your existing theme instead of installing the whole new version. That keeps every setting you already have.
Changelog
1.0.0 — initial release
First public release.