Title: Changing Theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Changing Theme

 *  [nana_kim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nana_kim/)
 * (@nana_kim)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-theme-11/)
 * Hello,
    I’m in charge of running website for the NGO I’m working at, and this
   year we plan to renew it with a better look and appearance. Currently we are 
   using Arras Theme and we’d like to change it into other (paid) theme. I am not
   very familiar with HTML and programming so I’m a bit worried, if I change the
   theme, all the posts will be there, is that correct? I would like to backup the
   files just in case, but we have more than 400 posts and I just want to make sure
   none of the posts, comments, and views are missing. Could anyone help me verify?
   So sorry for the troubles and thank you in advance!

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-theme-11/#post-2766853)
 * > if I change the theme, all the posts will be there, is that correct?
 * That’s correct. The posts, comments, pages are in the database and are not effected
   by changing themes.
 * > I would like to backup the files just in case, but we have more than 400 posts
   > and I just want to make sure none of the posts, comments, and views are missing.
 * That’s a _really_ good idea. 😉 Give these a read.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup](http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup)
 * There are plugins that will do backups on a scheduled basis but doing the old
   fashioned way is the best way to learn in my opinion.
 * Once you have your backup strategy in place keep them somewhere safe. Routine
   backups will save you hours of grief someday.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-theme-11/#post-2766853)
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