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Douglas Oliveira
Douglas Oliveira

Reputation: 579

Can I change the theme name in WordPress?

How can I change the theme name in WordPress and where?

Can I also change the folder name theme1244 in public/wp-content/themes/theme1244 without having problems in the future?

Upvotes: 48

Views: 134172

Answers (7)

nelle
nelle

Reputation: 11

Very late to the party here but everyone seems to have forgotten something. The very first step before you do any of the similar listed steps is to :

  1. DEACTIVATE THE THE THEME TO BE CHANGED IF IT CURRENTY ACTIVE. CHOOSE A SECONDARY THEME (SHOULD ALWAYS BE THE MOST CURRENT WP 'TWENTYTWENTY*' THEME AS A FALLBACK THEME).
  2. NOW CARRY OUT THE STEPS IN THE OTHER ANSWERS ABOVE.
  3. REACTIVATE YOUR CHANGED-NAME THEME.

In short don't modify in-memory files!

Upvotes: 0

Rida Rezzag
Rida Rezzag

Reputation: 3953

The answers above are good, but I wanted the full list and this is it so go to: wp-content/themes/{your site name folder}/style.css and change this values if they exist, if not you can add them

/* this should be at the top of your theme CSS file

 Theme Name:   Twenty Fifteen Child
 Theme URI:    http://example.com/twenty-fifteen-child/
 Description:  Twenty Fifteen Child Theme
 Author:       John Doe
 Author URI:   http://example.com
 Template:     twentyfifteen
 Version:      1.0.0
 License:      GNU General Public License v2 or later
 License URI:  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 Tags:         light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
 Text Domain:  twentyfifteenchild
*/

See Source for more details

Upvotes: 2

Shady Alset
Shady Alset

Reputation: 5714

Step 1: Firstly go to wp-content/themes/ folder. And then rename your theme folder to whatever you want.

Step 2: Open your theme folder and open style.css file. In top part of style.css you will see theme name. Rename it and save changes.

Step 3: Go to Wp-admin/appearance/themes and activate your theme under new name.

If you are using child/parent theme and you also rename parent theme folder&name, so after Step 3 you should additionally change parent theme path (template field) in child theme’s style.css.

note : renaming your theme will stop its automatic updates, you should do it manually in the future.

Upvotes: 85

Curtis M
Curtis M

Reputation: 1215

I changed my theme name in wp-content/themes/{your site name folder}/style.css I am using a child theme

/*
Theme Name: WhateverYouWantToNameIT
Template: twentytwenty 
*/

Upvotes: 2

Svetlin Nakov
Svetlin Nakov

Reputation: 1669

All the above is correct, but is not enough. After you rename the theme, e.g. rename the folder old-theme --> new-theme, you should copy the theme customizations (colors, header / footer, widgets, etc.) from the old theme to the new theme. This is done directly in the MySQL database:

  1. Find an option named theme_mods_old-theme in the table wp_options
  2. Copy the option_value (it is a text holding the theme customizations in a special WordPress format)
  3. Put the copied value in a new option named theme_mods_new-theme in the wp_options table.

Screenshot of the wp_options table in phpMyAdmin

Upvotes: 24

Hitesh Prajapati
Hitesh Prajapati

Reputation: 75

Its absolutely easy and simple, just follow instruction
1. Just rename theme name with your desire theme name.
2. open your desire theme name and open style.css file, and find theme name and changes with your desire theme name.
3. you can see your desire theme in admin dashboard-> appearance-> themes, just select and activate it.

Upvotes: -6

cursedphil
cursedphil

Reputation: 85

You can absolutely change the name of the folder without having any problems. If you want to change just the themes name, open the style.css in the root folder of your theme and edit the name in the comments at the top of the file. If you plan on doing more changes, you might be better off creating a child theme: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Upvotes: 5

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