Title: Converting to responsive theme
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# Converting to responsive theme

 *  [wrip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrip/)
 * (@wrip)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/converting-to-responsive-theme/)
 * I need to convert a non-responsive theme into responsive. What is the best way
   to do this? I think this is going to take a long time to do this as I’ll have
   to tweak CSS and add a lot of media queries. If you have done this before, please
   feel free to share your experience.

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/converting-to-responsive-theme/#post-5546677)
 * What you think is right on. Converting anything from non-responsive to responsive
   is a pretty big job. When I’ve done it it’s taken anywhere from a day to 2 weeks
   depending on just how complex the site is (and of course how much time I could
   spend on it each day).
 * This is something that you’ll need to figure out for yourself. is it worth doing
   this for your existing theme, or are you better off changing to a theme that’s
   responsive out of the box? Both are possible, and both work, but they will have
   different outcomes.
 *  [Dan14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dan14/)
 * (@dan14)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/converting-to-responsive-theme/#post-5546684)
 * When you make your site responsive it could also make it heavy, which means slow
   page loading. Be careful as Google now take into account page speed in its ranking
   and slow loading in general means you will lose traffic. Less than 3 seconds 
   loading time is good.
 *  Thread Starter [wrip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrip/)
 * (@wrip)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/converting-to-responsive-theme/#post-5546686)
 * Thanks for the replies.
    How about using a theme switcher like this: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/device-theme-switcher/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/device-theme-switcher/)?
 * Have you guys tried something like this? This looks promising as I can only build
   a new theme for mobile and tablet devices and leave the current theme as is. 
   What are your thoughts?
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/converting-to-responsive-theme/#post-5546687)
 * I haven’t used it, but if it works it would be OK.

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