How To Rename Your WordPress Theme

August 25, 2015   /   by Marco  / Categories :  Business
HOW TO RENAME YOUR WORDPRESS THEME

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):

Firstly, SSH into your server and go into the folder wp-content/themes/

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

cp -r phototastic newtheme

Rename Your WordPress Theme

As you can see above, the file ownership belongs to root, so we need to change the file ownership to admin. The command I used was:

chown -Rv admin:admin newtheme

Rename Your WordPress Theme - change ownership

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.

Rename Your WordPress Theme - style css file

Switch the theme in the dashboard by going to Appearance and active your new theme.

Rename Your WordPress Theme - activate new theme

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]

Rename Your WordPress Theme - Data

You can also update the screenshot.png by tacking a screenshot of your website and then uploading the file to wp-contents/themes/newtheme/

In some instances, I had to reselect the Menu items in the Manage Location section.

Rename Your WordPress Theme - Menu

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.
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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.

 

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