subject: Things to Remember While Changing Wordpress Themes [print this page] Things to Remember While Changing Wordpress Themes
As we know that Wordpress is a widely used Content Management System (CMS) & it is often used as a blog publishing application. It is a most popular content management system used today. The main features of Wordpress are like Plug-in architecture & template system. Wordpress is a content management system & it is used to manage the content of websites & mainly blogs.
So, by having Wordpress as a CMS we don't require any webmaster to modify the content of blog. Because having Wordpress, content writer is not bound to have deep knowledge of HTML to manage the content of website & blogs. Wordpress makes it very easy to have any kind of change in design of blog or to change the theme of blog as by having Wordpress, it is not required to have knowledge of HTML or CSS. And we can do it without any help of webmaster.
But there are some things you should keep in your mind while changing the theme of your blog to ensure that every thing is going perfectly. There are few things below you should keep in your mind.
1) Before going to activate your new theme in your blog, just save all the codes from your sidebar. Because if you make changes in sidebar & required device is not there in your wordpress then you have to make it again. Its OK if there is a required device-enabled wordpress. Otherwise save all the codes from your sidebar.
2) Stat -Tracking code should reapply. These codes are present in header & footer files. This is because when wordpress theme is changed, then the header & footer files will be overwritten due to the code found in header & footer files. And you have to apply these code again. Otherwise the blog will not tracked properly.
3) Use required plug-ins. Some plug-ins are outdated, some are not suitable for the theme you are using now. Some themes don't required any plug-in. So, Check what plug-in you are required.
4) Verify that plug-ins you are using are properly working
5) Check RSS feed subscription to make sure it's OK. Because if you have a blog & RSS feed is not working properly then there is no benefit of changing the theme. RSS feed is very important part of any website.
6) It might be possible that while applying the new Wordpress theme You haven't see all the features are correct or not. So, do not activate your theme until or unless you have not check all the features are OK.
7) There are so many browsers like internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox etc.. So, you should test your new theme in more than one browser to see its new features in all the browsers.
8) If you are going to apply new wordpress theme, you should be very careful while making any changes. Because you are going to change the theme of your blog and its not a matter of carelessness. One mistake can spoil everything.
9) Whatever change you have done in your blog you must tell your users & take their feedback on that. They will tell you how it looks. Because your blog should look beautiful in terms of themes.
10) Selection of an appropriate theme is also very important. New theme must match the niche of your blog. You can also choose any free wordpress theme developed by Wordpress Developers.
