Silk 4 Upgrade Information
After you install Silk 4, your website may appear wrong. Do not worry. Your Theme Variation settings in RapidWeaver may be reset due to the nature of this upgrade. In RapidWeaver, re-select your Theme Variation settings for each affected page. Re-upload your website, and your website should now display as expected.
General Notes
These are general issues you may experience during your upgrade process.
- Silk 4 will not conflict with previously installed Silk themes.
- After installing Silk 4, you will no longer see previous Silk themes in the RapidWeaver Theme Window.
- Due to the nature of this upgrade, many of your Theme Variation settings will no longer be applied after you install Silk 4 Do not worry. You only need to re-select your Theme Variations for each affected page.
- After upgrading to Silk 4, if your website appears drastically wrong in RapidWeaver, please reset the Theme Variations to the default settings. To do so, open the Page Inspector. View the Theme Variations panel. At the bottom of the Theme Variations panel, select the Folder icon and choose “Theme Default”.
Page Banner Images
Page banners are implemented differently in Silk 4 than in previous Silk versions. This is necessary to prevent AdBlock and other ad blocking software from hiding your page banner images. Please follow these steps to transfer your previous page banners into your new Silk 4 theme.
- To access the contents of the Silk theme, right-click on the .rwtheme file and choose “Show Package Contents”.
- Copy your existing page banner images from Silk 3 into Silk 4. Custom page banners should be placed into the “/Contents/images/editable_images/“ directory within the .rwtheme file.
- You must rename your page banner images from “banner_#.jpg” to “image#.jpg”, where # is 1, 2, 3, etc.