How to change wordpress theme name

steveXx

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• Aug 22, 2019

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My question is if i want to change wordpress theme from "woodmart" to "mytheme" ,is it enough that if we only rename the theme folder name on web directory like
\wp-content\theme\woodmart
To
Wp-content\theme\mytheme
Or it will disturb all pages,what is the right way to do this.

 

steveXx

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Heisenberg

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• Aug 22, 2019

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Change theme folder name and info located in style.css
Keep in mind doing this will break updates and you will manually need to do them for that theme.

Other and better solution would be to use renamed child theme.
If you don't know how to add that google it.

 

steveXx

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Heisenberg said:

Other and better solution would be to use renamed child theme.
If you don't know how to add that google it.

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Thanks , will look for that now