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hawky121

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I'm about use a bought theme. But I'd like to create my own theme later.
My question is, whether If I can retain the posts and import them to a whole new installed theme later or not???

 

Shaybib

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Yes u can . You install new theme the post stay

 

TheMarquis

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Yes

 

Zbigniew

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Yes you can. But be careful so that you don't implement too much code from the previous theme into the posts. If your new theme can't handle that code, it will be a big mess.

 

webmasteraziz

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yes it is very simple

 

Shaybib

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It only a problem if current theme use many shortcodes I had problem moving from avda theme

 

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hawky121

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Oh okay thank you guys.

 

Oscar Owen

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• Feb 26, 2020

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Yes you can!

 

smetch

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• Feb 28, 2020

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Generate a child theme for your planned new theme, so you have the flexibility to make code changes and not break anything when you update the main theme files.

 

rafark

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Zbigniew said:

Yes you can. But be careful so that you don't implement too much code from the previous theme into the posts. If your new theme can't handle that code, it will be a big mess.

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Pretty much this. All themes have at least some custom short codes that you are likely to end up using in your posts so migrations are not always 100% flawless.