Warning!!! Updating Drupal Zen Theme to 2009-Nov-10 Release Takes Special Care

posted by Jordan Peterson on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 10:32

Do not update from previous Zen Theme Releases to 2009-Nov-10 release unless clearing out the entire theme/zen folder before upgrading. I had a panic attack when updating the Zen theme.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function zen_theme() in ..... /themes/zen/zen/template.php on line 85

This may or may not work for you, but I had posted new content on Twitter and had a Zen oops immediately after upgrading. In a frantic, I went into the themes folder and removed the zen folder entirely; then

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/zen-6.x-1.1.tar.gz

tar xzvf zen-6.x-1.1.tar.gz

rm zen-6.x-1.1.tar.gz

Then point browser to: http://yoursite-name.com/update.php

Then it worked..