How To Update The Divi Theme to 3.0 | Update Divi Theme From 2.7 to 3.0! Elegant Themes!

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[Music] hey guys welcome my name is Daryl and this is going to be a quick tutorial but um I've received a lot of requests and I'm going to show you guys how to update your current DV theme to DV 3.0 now if you try to do it through just your themes and your updater you are going to get an error it's going to tell you that you've received the latest message so let me show you what I'm talking about so if I go to my dashboard right here and I'm sure you guys have got on to appearance and themes and then if you try to click on okay let's go ahead and update it you know let's let's update it 3.0 it's going to say this error it's going to say failed this is at its latest version but it's not because this is 2.7 so I'm going to show you how to fix this so the first thing you guys need to do is you need to get the updator so you can update your uh DV theme and you can go to this page I will link it in the description you just need to go ahead and download the zip file this is the elegant themes updator so I'm sure you're familiar with this because you need this just to update your current theme once you have uh downloaded this you can go ahead and install it so you're going to go to your uh plugins and go to you know add new I'm sure you know how to do this I you know I'm just just yeah so upload plugin you know choose the file go ahead and just uh upload the the the plug-in now once you're done uploading it and activating it you'll need to go to the settings so go to install plugins all right and you're going to see elegant themes updater so just go ahead and click on settings and you need to get your username and your API key so in order to find this information you need to log in on your account right here uh I'm going to go ahead and log in on my Elgen themes account and you need to go to your uh your account right here and your username is going to be right here okay so account and then your username and then you're going to go ahead and click on your API key so you're going to click on this and it's going to give you this long API key you're going to you just paste that right there so once you have that information you can now update your theme so I'm going to show you how to do that so click on Save changes after you've put in your information now instead of going to the plugins or appearance you'll need to go up here to dashboard and you see where it says updates right here you're going to click on updates like that okay so I'm going to scroll down right here and you see how it says right here you have version 2.1 or 2.7 updated 3.0 so go ahead and just click on this right here and go to update theme all right so it's updating all right so now it has successfully updated so this is how you update it so I can go ahead and just you know return to the page you know and and check it out so now it is using 3.0 and I can use the uh visual Builder so uh that's it guys that's all I wanted to tell you all I just saw a lot of people running into errors and confusions on the fors and people emailing me and all sorts of crazy stuff so all right I'll see you guys later