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Changing Your WordPress Theme


he'll always allocated from WP eagle
comm now in this video what we're going
to do is change themes on an established
website and this video has been
requested a number of times by my
viewers one view in particular actually
and you know put his comments up there
so he's quite keen to do so yet as I
always tried to keep my viewers happy
I've put together this video now the one
thing you need to keep in mind when
switching things on WordPress is there
are a lot of themes have their own kind
of features and you know bits of Bob's
going on and they're obviously not
always going to be carried across so
when you do change themes there is going
to be a bit of work to be done in terms
of tiling stuff up but when you do
change themes obviously you can keep the
bulk of your content in place but it may
just need tweaking to fit with the new
theme so without any more chitchat for
me let's get over on moving from
propulsion which is the theme that I
used in my first full-length tutorial
video over to free clicks which is the
theme I use in my latest build yourself
a website video ok if you got the
questions remember just leave them below
and let's get started
ok so I've set up a test site another
test site which is basically just a copy
of the original WP eagle demo that I set
in a video a while back and this is
running the propulsion theme which is a
premium theme available from theme
forest I'll put a link card type thing
up on the screen now so you can click
through and find it if you like it and
what I'm going to do is I'm going to
switch to the free clicks theme which is
another great theme I like on the forest
now I haven't done this before I'm kind
of doing this on the fly as we go so
hopefully it's all going to work ok but
it will kind of be similar to you when
you're changing themes you know you've
got to kind of work it out as you go
along in it a bit of a way because yeah
the options as I say I probably not
going to come across between the two
themes but let's see how it goes so I'm
going to install the new theme under
appearance and themes and I click add
new I've downloaded the theme already
from ThemeForest so hopefully you have
your theme files to hand
and miner in here so I'm going to
install the main theme first a lot of
themes have a child theme so you need to
install both and run the child theme
ideally it allows you you know when you
make changes in the future to update
your theme safely okay so that's going
to install that now
okay that's installed let's go back to
the themes page and I'm going to just
add that child theme and that's
installed I'm going to activate that one
so that's nicely activated we do need to
install some plugins with this theme so
I'm just going to click begin installing
plugins select them all on the drop-down
select install and then click apply
they're all installed so we can go back
to dashboard right so let's have a look
what's happened so we've also installed
that new theme and we've activated it so
let's go back to the front of the
website and just have a look at what it
looks like is it site and I've see it
looks totally different now we can see
that there are bits of content coming
across but obviously their own page is
gone because that was set up in the old
theme so we're gonna have to go about
configuring this theme a bit like it was
new so let's do that see how quickly we
can do that with the existing contents
so things like the logo and stuff should
already be on here so I'm gonna go back
into the dashboard and when you set the
menus slider logo that kind of thing
colors if need be so let's start with
the the menus these should already still
be here from the last from the theme
book sort of the old site they just need
to have the location set so I think that
was the main menu so I just need to
select the primary navigation which is
what this theme has for the main menu
that should bring the menu back
let's see if we got any others
there's a top menu too and we'll add
that to the secondary navigation I'm now
going to go into the theme options and
set the logo which on this theme is
under branding again the media library
everything is intact from the old site
so hopefully the logo which is here is
still here so I can select that click
Save now let's go back to the front of
the website and see if it started to
look more like a website okay yeah
there's our navigation it's a bit too
high needs a bit of tweaking I'm not
gonna do too much tweaking because
otherwise this video is going to go on
and on and on but you get the idea that
everything is kind of moved over part
from the theme options so that's what
needs to be done so if I was going to
set up a new homepage let's and just
check the page that we've got already
and when I go back to dashboard and go
into pages now the only original theme
it had like a template builder which was
specific to propulsion so all that stuff
is kind of stripped away at his dine
page
okay it's got the free boxes though they
may work actually because I think this
theme uses the 1/3 things but it's
probably easier if I just change to page
builder and just double check yeah they
see they have gone into the three
columns I don't think the drop cap is
probably supported though that is a
propulsion only thing so I'm going to
take that shortcode out and that is the
thing you're going to notice when you
switch themes is that the short codes
don't always match up between themes
because obviously there isn't really a
standard as that I'm aware of on these
short codes I mean the columns one
people tend to use the same but you know
drop caps and other logo things whatever
else comes with your theme they are
probably going to be specific to the
theme the only time where it may be okay
is if you change to a theme from the
same developer it might be a bit easier
so that's the home page it's going to
need a slider now this because we're the
oldest I had a slider there they are the
old one had a kind of bespoke built-in
slider this one uses revolution slider
so we'll set up in a minute come back
and add it okay so we just need to set
this as the home page and on this theme
free clicks it's within the theme
options usually it would be under
settings and reading with some reason on
this theme it's not so I think that's
under pages I'll clicking to match pages
home page and set that to the home page
let's go back and have a look
there's our three columns I'm going to
bring up the propulsions versions as
well just so we can see you know what
we're trying to get to here
I'll see if you're changing themes you
may or may not want it to look similar
you might want to talk completely
different in which case you need to
start styling as you want to so that's
how it was before with these these these
kind of free boxes and we've got them
here that the numbers don't look quite
as good but but hey so yeah something
like this act just add the slider and
what were these these were the the
portfolio section which again I don't
know if that's going to come across
let's go back and have a look and now
three clicks uses works you see and in
propulsion they were called portfolio
and I think those were specific to them
to the theme so you know you're gonna
have to set those up again but let's
just do the slider then I'll conclude
this video because otherwise it's going
to drag on it as me kind of hacking
around but kind of what I want to put
across so when you move themes it's not
as straightforward as you might think
because you are going to have to reset
page drive especially like the home page
where you're using different elements
that may be specific to your theme so
the slider let's go to revolution slider
hopefully the slide images are kind of
going to work on this slider that I had
before so let's try it out I just call
it homepage great slider let's create or
edit slides new slide and I think it was
this guy was it a lot a couple of guys
let's go for happy man one that's going
to create slide with that image I can
and start to add some text to him well
blimey it's ER it's only got a bit of
his head that's fine we could you know
you can actually play all the settings
on revolution slider it's got lots its
add a text layer
we've changed themes and you've got
ledger Styles I'll do but if I change
the slider so that it's a bit taller it
will probably look better let's go back
to slider settings grid height it's
quite small if up at that like to 500
and let's do that so I'm gonna go back
to the home page I need to add that
slider and also you have to change all
the colors whatever to match it because
again they're the theme specific so yeah
I guess you've got to sum up whether you
want to just change the theme like this
and then go through and edit all the
content whatever off to your site should
be down while you do that all you need
to take a copy and do it on a test area
then move it back the other way might be
to create a new site install your new
theme and then export the content from
the old site and then import it into the
new site using the import/export plug-in
so what I need is a revolution slider
and that's what I need and then we just
select time page it's already done that
cuz anyone
there's our man he's kind of encroaching
a little bit on our boxes so you know we
need to add some space there and to make
that look good pretty turn off the
shadow it's up to you something like
shadows it's kind of up to you so yeah I
think I need a bit of space so I'm going
to click add a bit of space okay I'm
going to wrap this video up because yeah
I'm just waffling on a bit and it's
going to take me a while to actually
make this site look similar to the old
site which I I'm not going to do today
because I've got lots of other things I
need to do but hopefully you've got the
idea if you get stuck changing themes
just drop me a message and I'll see if I
can help you out need a bit more space
so yeah lots of back-and-forth lots of
tweaking but yeah I hopefully that's
clear enough so you could switch back to
the old theme if you wanted to but
obviously start to delete all the old
shortcodes out it won't look as good as
it was right every that made second
sense that was for who dat pax or the
guy that said we weren't sure about my
videos thanks for the support
and I hope you found that useful see you
later

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