Fastpath: Guide Admin > Customize design icon > Theme options menu > Update from GitHub
If you've set up the GitHub integration for your Guide theme, you manage your theme in GitHub and update the theme in Guide as needed.
You must be a Guide Manager to update a GitHub-managed theme in Guide.
To update your Guide theme from GitHub
- In GitHub, make any changes to your theme, then increment the theme version number in the manifest.json file when you are ready to update the theme in Guide.
- In Guide, click the Customize design icon (
) in the sidebar.
The Themes page opens.
- Hover your mouse over the GitHub-managed theme you want to update.
Any GitHub-managed theme has the GitHub logo beside the name of the theme.
- Click the options menu (
), then select Update from GitHub.
- In Update from GitHub, click Update.
If you want to overwrite your theme settings in the Settings panel, deselect Keep theme settings. Otherwise the import will keep the theme settings as they are set in Guide and not overwrite them from GitHub.
Your theme updates in the Themes page.
4 Comments
The options menu icon image on step #4 is not visible.
Thanks for letting us know, James! It's fixed now.
Hi Jennifer!
I was curious if the Zendesk/Github integration can work in reverse.
Meaning instead of "...you manage your theme in Github and update the theme in Guide as needed", I have been trying to determine how to "manage our theme in Guide, and update GitHub with the changes" – as a way to keep a versioned backup of our theme code in Github.
Thanks!
Hi Rachel,
No, the integration doesn't work in reverse.
If you want to manage your theme in Guide and store a backup in GitHub, you can manually export the theme from Guide, unzip the files, and add them to a new branch in your GitHub repo.
Hope that helps!
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