Transitioning from custom theme to pre-built theme

  • Hi everyone,

    I want to transition my website from the custom theme to a pre-built WordPress theme.

    Is this really difficult to do and time consuming? I’ve had a web developer quote me on 1,000€ to transition a theme although I see this option in WordPress that I can just click on…I’m not sure if he is way out of line or if I would be getting myself into trouble by doing this myself. I have changed themes before on a blog years ago, but this is more technical.

    I’m afraid to click on a new theme because I don’t want to lose how my website is right now and then be in a big mess.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic

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  • Perhaps your custom theme is doing things that should be in plugins? Or the developer doesn’t really want the job, so quotes a high rate?

    For themes that just do theme things, no help is needed to switch themes. We only have this type of theme in the WordPress repository.
    For themes that try to do everything (even plugin stuff unrelated to design of the site), you will have to separate each part to a plugin, so the functionality remains when you switch themes. Content is not lost (it’s stored in the database), but custom post types are registered at each page request, so if that code is not running, you won’t see the custom post type content.

    You can go into the Customizer and preview your site with other themes. It does not change the site that the visitor sees until you click Publish (or Activate and Publish for a theme switch). This can show you if the theme is doing things that should be in plugins.

    You can also Export your content (or just some of it if you have a lot), and import it into a sandbox at https://wpsandbox.net/ so you can try out different themes and plugins without hurting your existing site.

    Thread Starter amydoherty

    (@amydoherty)

    thanks for your help Joy!

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