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Wordpress Changing Themes - Moving Content?

by Emir Hayric
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I am in the process of starting a new WP site and unfortunately I have already invested a significant amount in product creation. I was going to put off purchasing a premium theme for a few weeks but also need to get started so I will use a free theme.

Will I encounter a lot of difficulty exporting and re-importing my content into a new theme? I would like to think that if I am paying $100 for a premium theme with support that the designers know people will need to import content.
#changing #content #moving #themes #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author David V
    The content transfer will be easy, just export it, then import it.

    It will be any shortcodes used that will not work unless the shortcodes are coming from a plugin.
    Theme specific shortcodes only work in that theme or framework.

    Note: Dan Grossman is 100% correct. This assumes your developing online and nothing is moving.
    If your developing locally you'll need to export content.
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    • Profile picture of the author Emir Hayric
      Originally Posted by David V View Post

      The content transfer will be easy, just export it, then import it.

      It will be any shortcodes used that will not work unless the shortcodes are coming from a plugin.
      Theme specific shortcodes only work in that theme or framework.
      Thank you for the reply, David.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    Your content doesn't actually move. It's sitting in a database, as pages and posts, and they don't get touched when you change themes in WordPress. The theme dictates the appearance of the webpages before/after the content of the pages and posts, things like the header and footer and sidebars. You can change themes over and over, and all your content is still there, unchanged, just wrapped by the different designs. In the appearance menu in your WP backend, you can even search and preview themes without installing them -- the preview button shows what your current site content looks like in that theme, which is how the site will look after you click the "install" and "activate" buttons.
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    • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
      ^ ^ ^ Exactly right
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      • Profile picture of the author Emir Hayric
        Thank you very much for the replies I have already installed a free theme so I can get started.

        Switching gears but still related to WP, I would like to use a custom homepage header that matches my logo. Is this possible in themes? The one I am using only allows me to change the header colors but maybe I have not dug deep enough yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    A theme is just a set of files. You have full ability to edit these files. If it doesn't give you a menu to insert a logo, then open the header.php file of the theme and insert it in the HTML code yourself. There's a built-in theme file editor in the appearance menu.
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    Give us the URL of your site, <-best

    or the name of the theme and someone should tell you how to deal with the header image.
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    ...Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just set there.
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  • Profile picture of the author Emir Hayric
    Seo-wired.com but the template is only temporary.
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