Title: Changing theme preserving posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Changing theme preserving posts

 *  [chrrissss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrrissss/)
 * (@chrrissss)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-theme-preserving-posts/)
 * Hi
    I want to change a theme I purchased to another theme I have bought, I have
   the new theme I want running locally, if I activate the new theme on my live 
   site how do i get it to preserve and show my current live portfolio and blog 
   pages? will it just work with the new theme ? or do I have to export/import the
   xml from my locally running site ? hope that make sense. thanks

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 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-theme-preserving-posts/#post-3895893)
 * Your content should just work with the new theme. All content (blog posts, pages)
   are stored in the underlying WordPress structure (tables), themes just change
   the appearance/user interface to the site. So you should be able to switch around
   and try different themes to see what fits your site without losing any content.
 * Now, if you’ve tweaked the local copy of the theme to have a certain appearance,
   you’ll need to make the same tweaks to your production installation. Some themes
   come with an option to export the theme settings so you can import them on another
   installation or to save the settings as a backup. You’ll have to check to see
   if that feature is part of your theme. Otherwise, you’ll have to tweak the theme
   manually on the production site using the same steps as you followed in your 
   local copy. Hope that answers your question.
 *  Thread Starter [chrrissss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrrissss/)
 * (@chrrissss)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-theme-preserving-posts/#post-3895926)
 * Thanks for answer

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