Learn how to change the WordPress theme on your website without breaking your website. Sometimes themes get outdated, or you find a better theme that suits the needs of your website better. But if you change to that theme you can lose data or even break your complete website. So how to do it? That is what I will show you in this video.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
04:04 Make a Backup Of Your Current WordPress Website
05:10 Make A Backup Website
09:21 Download The Blocksy Theme (or your preferred theme)
11:01 Recreate The Header
25:35 Recreate The Webshop
29:33 Recreate The Footer
32:57 Replace Your Live WordPress Website With The New Website

I will show you how you can safely change the theme of your WordPress site that is already complete. So you have the up or running website, you want to change the theme. How can you do that without destroying your website? That is what I will show you in this tutorial. So I had a client today or a friend who said, Hey, I made his website with a certain theme I did not know. And I’m getting stuck. So I tried to fix things. And I was like, Okay, it’s not working, what I can do, I can install a new theme, and when you change a few things, and then your website will work smoothly. And that’s what we did. And that’s what I’m showing you in this tutorial. But what I want to say to you is that changing a theme in your website is not a magic touch, there is no plugin that says, Okay, this is your website, choose a different theme, click on the button and copy and paste it and everything will be the same. Because everything has its own styles. What the theme does is the size, how your hair looks, the size, how your footer looks, the size, the overall style of your website. And if you have a blog post, it will define the style of your blog post. And if you have the Webshop at the will also define the style. So that’s what it does. So if you make your website elemental, for instance, when you change themes, all the content you made with Elementor will stay the same. So that’s a good thing. So what I will show you is how you can do this, yourself, we’re gonna do it safely. We’re gonna use backups and all that stuff. But it’s not a thing that you do in just three minutes. It takes some time. But in the end, I believe you can be happy with the results. And I never had a longer intro than this one. So let’s get started, I will show you how you can change the theme of your website. And I will use the black sea theme because I think that’s the best free theme within WordPress. And let’s get started. By the way, if you liked this video, feel free to like it. If you have a question, leave a comment. And if you want to learn more about WordPress, feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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23 Comments

  1. can any body help me with a big issue i am having. im usiing woocommerce for my ecommerce site but when i go to the checkout page and click on this: "Have a coupon? Click here to enter your code" to put a coupon doce, nothinf happens, im frustrated already with this. any help please

  2. Just for few people who have missed it hearing properly.
    This plugin is Free only if your website size is 512MB and below, and if above this then you have to take yearly License of $69.

    I am writing this coz I missed it and now I am stuck with buying the license.

    Overall nice and informative video.

  9. hi – is there any theme that will re-format my content automatically? I want to re-design the website but I don't want to make a huge mess. I have Astra now with Elementor – both Pro versions. Can I delete Astra and go with another theme easily somehow? I created most of my blogposts with Elementor, and then realized i could use Gutenberg instead and the speed would be better. I have 58 posts so far. I am not a developer. It took me a while to get the design i have now. Thank you.

  11. Hi Ferdy, thanks for the great video! This really helps🤗. I just had the problem that my current theme does not support newer versions of wordpress anymore so I will have to change it. Just one question: Do I understand right that in order to rebuild the site you need another domain (like a blank space) that is not live and in the end import everything into the live website? Is there any way of doing that without the need to buy / own another domain? Thanks in advance. Keep up the great work!

  18. Hey Freddy, I just got a job at this new place, they wanted me to make adds for (and apparently make adjustments to) their website, I have been using your videos to redo the website, you are by far the most helpful on YouTube and forums get complicated, so you are number one!
    My file backup size for the website is 13GB I have no idea how I am going to fix this website 🤦🏽

  21. PLEASE 2 Q from a newbie perspective:
    1) When one gets a theme, can it be modified with any visual WP builder? Even if it didn't come with it? Such as maybe with Gutenberg?
    2) And what if the theme doesn't come with a page builder? Must one do what you did?
    Thanks.

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