{"id":3402,"date":"2015-08-25T14:54:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T04:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2015-08-25T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T04:54:35","slug":"how-to-rename-your-wordpress-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/25\/how-to-rename-your-wordpress-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Rename Your WordPress Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a number of advantages of renaming a WordPress Theme but I won’t into details in this post. I just need to jot down some of the steps. Here’s the steps (I’m using a CentOS VPS server so some of these commands may not work for you):<\/p>\n

Firstly, SSH into your server and go into the folder wp-content\/themes\/<\/p>\n

Copy the folder of the theme you are currently using to a new name e.g phototastic to newtheme. The command I used was:<\/p>\n

<\/a>Source code<\/a><\/td><\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>
cp -<\/span>r phototastic newtheme<\/pre><\/div><\/div>\n
\"Rename<\/a><\/p>\n
As you can see above, the file ownership belongs to root, so we need to change the file\u00a0ownership to admin. The command I used was:<\/p>\n
<\/a>Source code<\/a><\/td><\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>
chown<\/span><\/a> -<\/span>Rv admin:<\/span>admin newtheme<\/pre><\/div><\/div>\n
\"Rename<\/a><\/p>\n
Go into the newtheme folder and edit the styles.css file. In particular change the Theme Name, Theme URI, Author, Author URI and Text Domain.<\/p>\n
\"Rename<\/a><\/p>\n
Switch the theme in the dashboard by going to Appearance and active\u00a0your new theme.<\/p>\n
\"Rename<\/a><\/p>\n
If you want to retain the look and feel of your previous theme then you need to go into the database and in the wp_options table look the option_name called theme_mods_[old_theme] and copy the option_values from this to theme_mods_[new_theme]\n
\"Rename<\/a><\/p>\n
You can also update the screenshot.png by tacking a screenshot of your website and then uploading the file to wp-contents\/themes\/newtheme\/<\/p>\n
In some instances, I had to reselect the Menu items in the Manage Location section.<\/p>\n
\"Rename<\/a><\/p>\n
NOTE: There are a few drawbacks with renaming your WordPress theme, one being that if there are any updates to the theme, you may not be able to simply click on the update button.<\/div><\/div>\n
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I hope this has helped some of you. If you need any further help, please let me know by leaving a comment.<\/div><\/div>\n
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