Releasing Critical & Significant Updates to Digital Products

30 September 2020

TemplateMonster allows authors to add critical and significant updates to their products.

We have added a new block to your author account so you could see how many of your products should be updated. It shows how many of your products were updated in the last 6, 6 to 12, and more than 12 months ago.

Now your products can also be filtered by the same three time frames.

We have also added product update notifications to your author account:

Why are product updates so important?

It is possible to get more sales if your products are up-to-date. 

‘Recently updated’ products have corresponding labels on their cards and pages.

When making a purchase, users pay attention to the date of the last update. For them, it is as important as the feature set and compatibility with third-party plugins and applications.

Please note! This label will be removed after 6 months if the author has not updated the product.


Critical Update

Whenever you update an item released in the TemplateMonster digital marketplace, check the Critical Update field if your product update features such vital changes as:

  • major improvements;
  • critical fixes;
  • removing compatibility issues;
  • and other changes that bring special value to your customer.   

Releasing a critical update of a digital product suggests that you add any of the three following types of improvements:

  1. A critical update that applies to fixing the product’s functionality, including:
    1. bugs that come out after the theme engine update and break the work of the template;
    2. bugs that break the functionality of the site (engine) and get fixed at the theme level.
  2. Security update in code:
    1. plugin / extension turned out to be unsafe and has critical vulnerabilities, but there is no plugin update;
    2. plugin / extension has ceased to exist and has been removed / replaced with another current / compatible plugin.
  3. 3. An update related to copyright issues:
    1. copyright problems of a part of the template (pictures, scripts, plugins, other content);
    2. copyright problems for the entire template.

Please note! You cannot apply the critical update to graphics and media products.

What happens when you check the Critical Update field?

  • Your clients will receive an email notification about the update.
  • The Updated date on the product page will also change.

When you release a Critical Update, do not forget to specify the change log details featuring  a list of change and the release date.

tm-update-item-changelog

Please note! TemplateMonster Review Team runs a thorough audit of Critical Updates. Please do not put a tick against this point if your product update features minor changes only, like product description modifications, tweaks in the product presentation, etc.  


Significant Update

Releasing a significant update of a web theme suggests that you add any or all of the following elements:

  • adding plugins or other functionality to the theme;
  • adding more pages, skins, and child themes;
  • updating the framework or the theme’s platform.

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