How to Change layout of Current Theme for Wordpress?

Nickels

12 years ago

ive never used the thesis theme..but would it be the same as any other theme? you cant just go in and change themes?

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Tess D 12 years ago

1) do you have a link to the site?
2) if you are not moving it to another domain, you won't loose your rank etc.
3) if you are simply switching themes, back up your database and posts (as you should be regularly, anyway), install a new theme and activate it. You may need to make some adjustments to the posts as the style sheet will change from your current theme.
If you need help just post here - I do a lot of wordpress work and will be happy to help.
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spesialis

12 years ago

You shouldn't lose ranking because your permalink is stay the same.

Just click Appearance and click activate on Twenty Eleven. You will lose all styling, but not your posts.

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LA Grouch

12 years ago

Atahualpa is a great replacement for Thesis and it's free.

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shqipo

12 years ago

The beauty of WP is that content and design (styling) are separated. Your current SE ranking is based on your content, not on how the website looks like. As long as you keep the same CMS system with the same database - meaning same content - same permalink, pages, posts, images (and their alt tags), etc. you should be fine.

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pandadoodle

12 years ago

Originally Posted by shqipo

The beauty of WP is that content and design (styling) are separated. Your current SE ranking is based on your content, not on how the website looks like. As long as you keep the same CMS system with the same database - meaning same content - same permalink, pages, posts, images (and their alt tags), etc. you should be fine.

That's only dependent on how one theme is set up to the other, it all depends on how drastic of a change is going on. Id say in most cases 90% of the time there should be no immediate effect on ranking.

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zaman2011

12 years ago

as long as you are not going to change the URL or content, you won't loose rank or any other thing will go wrong.

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pbarnhart

12 years ago

Thesis is so flexible that I have been able to make it look just about like anything. Between CSS and the Thesis hooks customizing is a breeze. Have you hit the site for the design and mod tutorials? Consider upgrading to the most current release, which has a lot of built-in style modification functionality?

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blogfreakz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by pbarnhart

Thesis is so flexible that I have been able to make it look just about like anything. Between CSS and the Thesis hooks customizing is a breeze. Have you hit the site for the design and mod tutorials? Consider upgrading to the most current release, which has a lot of built-in style modification functionality?

yes agree, if you only knew how to used thesis theme very well you don't have to change it to other themes.. but anyway if you will not change your URL your rank is safe...

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jpboxersox

12 years ago

Thanks warriors!

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puedall

12 years ago

Hi,
I am using PageLines theme..It is much easier for me then Thesis..
You want loose your ranking or posts, if you are not changing your domain name.
Regards, Geena