Changing themes

  • I would consider myself above a wordpress novice, but far from an expert, so heres my question…

    Ive taken over the duty of building and maintaining my companies wordpress website. This site was already built, but left idle for a while. Im not exactly sure what parent theme it was built with, but its mobile capabilities dont seem up to par. I need to get this site looking good on desktop, mobile, and tablet. In my research Ive found that going with a fully responsive theme like 2014 is the way to go. Ive got the site to where it basically has 90% of the information needed, but realize that the theme it has doesnt match up on mobile and tablet.

    If I change the theme, will it completely alter my site?

    The site is https://www.ineedakey.com

    If anyone could please browse it on desktop, mobile, and tablet, and give any advice possible, I would sure appreciate it. It functions on mobile, but theres a few things I dont like. Picture alignment, footer alignment, the menu is static on mobile, etc.

    Thank you in advance for any help with this.

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  • I think it will change your site, but that’s what you want to do isn’t it? Your content should all be fine but any customisations might not.

    You could consider developing on your local machine and importing your content to that. Install your desired theme and sort out the problems before pushing it to the live site.

    Thread Starter Chad Williams

    (@chad-williams)

    Yes I do want to change the site, just not all the content. Basically, I cant have the site go down and have to be rebuilt from the ground up. Im wondering do the menus stay intact? The pages and content stay setup? The plugins still function (google maps pro which is utilized on 3 seperate pages). Does my SEO all stay the same?

    Thread Starter Chad Williams

    (@chad-williams)

    I even noticed on the current theme, the header cant be changed inside admin control panel. I have to change it through ftp. Which the old developer has that info and isnt responding to my emails so I can gain access to change it. WordPress sites Ive built in the past allowed me to change my header image right from settings in admin panel. Just ticky tacky reasons I need to change the theme, but I really dont want to have to rebuild this site from the ground up. We have dealers that access this site daily, so it needs to be as smooth a transition as possible.

    Thread Starter Chad Williams

    (@chad-williams)

    Wow, didnt mean to post that 3 times… Not sure how to delete the extras..

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Don’t worry about the 2 extras. I can delete them. ??

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