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OK, thanks. I plan to use WP Stagecoach to run a clone locally and test changes there. At the same time I will get the host login info to make backups of their DB.

Appreciate the feedback.

Thanks, leejosepho.

I am doing this for someone else, and it was a bit of work just getting the necessary login data for their backend. So I guess I need to go through all that again to get their host login info, so I can back up their MySQL databases. Anything else I should backup?

And all this work when probably toggling won’t even change anything.

Thanks catacaustic, I understand.

Can you say in a more general fashion, if adjusting preferences to a theme in the WP admin panel would result in losing existing settings? It seems to me that it would logical to assume that if I were to experiment with checking a checkbox which is provided to me as an option in a theme’s preferences (for a theme which was currently active) and make no other changes, I could simply uncheck that option if the results were unsatisfactory and the theme (thus live website) would revert to its previous state.

So I am not asking about a specific theme but more about the way the admin backend works in general. Any thoughts?

Thanks

Thanks catacaustic. I’ve found out that the existing theme they are using is called Xtreme1 Theme, made by MarketPress. They are also running a child theme named Xtreme Blank Child Theme.

I’ve looked up these themes and found out a few things:

On the MarketPress website they say that there is a release of Xtreme1 called 1.6, from early 2014. In the documentation they write “YAML 4- Xtreme One 1.6 now has full YAML 4 support. The YAML version 3 has been removed for better compatibility for your own CSS or your own CSS framework. This brings more flexibility and gives you the freedom to make your own Child Themes also responsive.” I also found “Responsive Themes –
Xtreme 1.6 is now with the YAML 4 integration responsive. All child themes have also been adapted and optimized for mobile.”

https://marketpress.com/support/topic/xtreme-one-1-6-news/

They also have a list of their available child themes, and Xtreme Blank Child Theme is not among them.

I am trying to verify what version of Xtreme1 is being used on the website, but currently I don’t have administrator access on the WP backend. Hopefully they assign that soon.

Assuming that the parent theme needs to be updated, it seems from the documentation I listed above that if I update to 1.6 and use a current child theme, the site will be responsive. Does this seem accurate to you?

Do you know if I were to change to one of their currently supported child themes, would this affect the look of the website? Would I perhaps need to copy the CSS from the current child theme and paste that into the newer child theme? In this case would I simply download a new child theme, make those changes and then activate the new child theme?

Thanks again, your feedback is really helpful.

Thank you catacaustic. It seems like you are saying that the plugin option is not advisable – or did I read you wrong on that?

Additionally, I’ve also read that if I were to apply a WP child theme which were responsive and use the existing theme as the parent theme, but make no changes – simply apply the responsive child theme – that the site would look and function as it now does but would be responsive, because the child theme is responsive. Does this make sense?

Seems to me I’d still have to make css and potentially html changes to the child theme, or does the responsiveness of the child theme somehow supercede the non-responsiveness of the older parent theme?

Sorry for being so naive, much appreciate the advice.