Redesigning Site and Changing Theme help

  • PilotGav

    (@pilotgav)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    My site is using an old theme, and I’ve decided to move to Enfold.

    The site isn’t complicated at all… just a few shortcodes which I’ll have to re-do and the like.

    My concern is that if I install and activate the new theme in order to configure and re-design the pages, posts, etc. the site will be down.

    Is there a way to do all the work in the new theme, but have the OLD theme still active until I’ve done what needs to be done for the NEW theme, and then switch?

    I’m betting there’s a simple solution that more experienced designers have used 🙂

    Looking forward to your suggestions!

    Gavin

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  • bemdesign

    (@bemdesign)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Use something like MAMP/WAMP/XAMP ([Operating System] Apache, MySQL, PHP) to run a local version of your server software, then use the Duplicator plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator) on your “live” site to make a snapshot/archive of your production site.

    Download the archive file created by Duplicator and unzip it into your local MAMP/WAMP/XAMP (let’s just shorten this to *AMP) htdocs folder.

    Start *AMP up (i.e. start the server on your local machine) and point your browser at http://localhost:8888/[name of directory]/installer-backup.php – adjust that URL to match what your *AMP documentation and actual file structure inside your htdocs folder is.

    Follow the directions provided on the page that shows up.

    And a few short steps later you’ll have an exact clone of your live website running locally.

    Then start tweaking things locally until you get what you need/want.
    Once you’re all done, use Duplicator to move what you’ve done locally back out to your actual live website.

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