• Resolved manodicandia

    (@manodicandia)


    Dear Sirs,

    I am a beginner in WordPress and I would really like your help so I ask you to also be patient with my ignorance. I have been using the Ecalypse plugin and theme for a few years already and I want to change to Vik Car Rental. My question is:

    1). Has anyone done this switch before?

    2). Are these two themes similar as all the data that I already have in my existing WordPress site like pages, posts, previous car rentals etc, need to be accessible from the Vik plugin?

    3). In case they are not visible/accessible I guess I have to manually import pages and posts, so how would I do that?

    I don’t mind starting over with the customization of my site but it is overwhelming from the quick scan I did for understanding the process.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author e4jvikwp

    (@e4jvikwp)

    Hello,

    Thanks for your message. Your concerns are understandable, especially when it’s about adopting a different plugin.

    Please find our answers to your questions below:

    1. We don’t know the Theme/Plugin you mentioned, and so we are probably not aware of anyone who has done this switch before, I’m sorry.
    2. There is something we would like to clarify: VikRentCar is a WordPress Plugin, it is not a Theme, and it can therefore be used with any WordPress Theme. Ideally, you don’t need to change or migrate anything, you can probably keep your current Theme and start configuring VikRentCar with the required contents and Shortcodes (pages) to allow the booking process.
      However, some third-party Themes may be strongly connected to a third-party plugin, and so deactivating or uninstalling such plugin may break your Theme. You could always keep the previous plugin active, but since it will no longer being used, it would be better to remove it from your site. You can test this behaviour by trying to de-activate the plugin and keep the current Theme enabled, because as we said, VikRentCar can be used with any WordPress Theme that you want.
    3. Your current pages/posts are handled by WordPress itself. If you decided to adopt a new WordPress Theme, then such pages should be automatically available also with the new Theme. The same thing goes for our plugin VikRentCar. Once configured, you can switch Theme as many times as you want, but its contents will remain available. When switching Theme, you may need to work on some pages that were displaying widgets/blocks, such as the “Search Form” of VikRentCar that you see in the home page of the official demo website, but it’s all up to the Theme you’re willing to use.

    Changing Theme will definitely keep all of your current pages/posts. All you need to verify is how they’re displayed in the front-end section with another Theme.

    In these cases we suggest making a copy of your current website to publish it onto a staging domain/directory where you can test what happens by changing Theme or by de-activating some plugins that you wish to abandon. For sure, by using our plugin VikRentCar you will be able to change Theme as many times as you want without ever losing any contents, because those are handled by WordPress itself and they’re saved inside your own website’s database.

    We invite you to reach out to our team by using the contact form on our website should you have any technical questions or doubts. We will be happy to assist!

    The VikWP Team

    Thread Starter manodicandia

    (@manodicandia)

    Thank you for your speedy answer.

    I saw that you have also a theme except the plugin and to be honest I should have invested with you guys from the beginning. I also saw that you have the Eurobank payment gateway, which I already have from the previous retailer but I could never make it work as it is asking me for information that I didn’t have. I will use the contact form you are suggesting as I am a bit of a beginner with WordPress and I would like to send you and your team my current plugin and theme to see if the shortcodes are similar. Thanks again

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