Upgrading from version 4
What changes when moving a site from Goodnews 4 to Goodnews 5, and what must be reset.
Goodnews 5 was built from scratch rather than incrementally updated from version 4. Moving a site from 4 to 5 is not a drop-in update — you should expect to reconfigure your theme settings afterward.
What changed
- The theme options panel was rebuilt. A large number of unused options were removed and many new ones were added.
- The review system is entirely new.
- The old static ad widgets were replaced by the current advertising system — see The advertising system.
Because of the scale of these changes, your version 4 settings do not carry forward. Plan to go through the theme options again after updating.
After upgrading
If you want your existing images to fit the new design better, run WordPress's Regenerate Thumbnails tool.
