Changing themes

Hi,

First of all, it’s always recommended to back up your database and files before changing your theme or updating WordPress. It will ensure that you can recover your website if anything goes wrong.

To be sure, you can try the theme switch on a local installation to avoid any problem on your live website.

Changing a theme shouldn’t make you lose your site data (posts, pages, images). However, if you’re using custom page templates or widgets in your old theme, they won’t exist with the new theme.

To use one of Twentig starter websites, you first need to change your theme to Twenty Twenty-One. Before activating the new theme, you can open the Theme Customizer to preview it with your content to see how it goes.

When loading a Twentig starter website, you can preview it in the Customizer. No changes appear on your live site until you click “Publish”.

You have different import types:

– If you select “All”, it will load the content (pages, posts, menus, widgets) and the Customizer style of the starter website. It will replace (replace and not delete) your old menu, so you’ll have to select your old menu as the primary.

– Or you can select “Customizer Style” as the Import Type to only import the style and not the content.

Hope that helps,
Tom

Yes, to use the Twentig starter templates, you first need to switch the theme to Twenty Twenty-One.

Twentig will continue to support the Twenty Twenty-One theme, so if you’re happy with it, there’s no reason to switch to the Twenty-Two theme.

Have a nice day,
Tom