How to deliver this theme to a client?

  • Hi
    I’ve just finished a theme for a client (by no mean am I a professional WP-developer, I’m a web designer who helped someone out). Now the problem is, can I get everything that belongs to the theme into a neat package that he can easily install?

    I can put the theme in a folder and let him upload it just like any theme. That’s a given.

    But I also have plugins used in my theme that are required for all of the functionality that he wants. And then I have some custom pages set up, the slug of these pages is specifically important since I have a couple of category templates.

    Is there anyway I could pass these plugins and these settings (custom pages and so) with the theme?

    Or what way would I best do this in?

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  • Some ideas: you could send an export of the database along with the theme files, so that the site already has categories established that will work with your category templates. But that assumes the client knows how to upload a database and set up wordpress themselves. And if you developed it locally, you’d need to send a wp-config with all of their database and host info. Depends on how much they can do for themselves.

    Or, don’t send the database, but send instuctions for them to make certain categories once they upload the theme and plugins.

    Thread Starter althalos

    (@althalos)

    Hey that’s a great idea. It would be just like moving WordPress from one server to another server, except we don’t move WordPress.

    I’ll probably offer him both ways.

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