Changing Theme Important Question

  • Resolved jackmac71

    (@jackmac71)


    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there,

    I have another WordPress Website, using Kadence Theme. It‘s a Review Website with over 300 Posts, with the Plugins: Rank Math for Seo, Elementor (non pro) only for the Website not for Post Pages. Post Pages are made with Gutenberg Editor.

    Now my question: when changing from Kadence to Blocksy, which issues could be expected. Is it possible to lose Google rankings while rank math schemas get lost, or the style of the website, h1 tags lost. What could happen and how I avoid these issues.

    My plan is first to change to the free blocksy theme and then when already works to upgrade to the pro Plan. Because I think Kadence is not really going forward, after they was sold to Stellar. The last updates were on their Kadence Blocks and their are good, but the Pro Version stand still, and I had some strange issues the last time. But when changing the theme is to risky I have to stay with Kadence.

    I hope you can help, explain and gave a little support, if there are some risks to change to blocksy, which is a great theme in my opinion, because the people behind are very helpfull.

    Best regards

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  • Eduard

    (@cteduard)

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @jackmac71

    Changing a theme will always require work to be made on the website, as the main styles of the website are stored in the theme’s settings. That’s how the WordPress system works like.

    You will need to re-do things such as colours, typography settings, layout measurements, header configuration and so on. These things are not transferrable when changing themes.

    However, things such as the page contents, third party plugin settings, etc., will remain the same, as a theme cannot touch these.

    I would recommend creating a staging version and experimenting with the move on there, see how it goes. But it is inevitable for some things to not change, as that’s simply how the system works like and is irrelevant of the theme chosen.

    Hope these tips help!

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter jackmac71

    (@jackmac71)

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Eduard,

    thanks for the fast responsive. The needed works on the style, colors, typography is clear to me.

    My only fears are, if the rank math schemas will work, because I saw it by a friend, he‘s changing the theme and all markups are gone and google were feeded by destroyed schemas and showed after them, no review stars, the wrong meta data and so on. Thats why I‘m asking for problems.

    Is it usefull to reset the blcoksy theme after installing? I noticed, when I install and delete a theme and install it again, the styles are still there. This means that all settings are still saved, or am I wrong? Which is the best way to activate a before installed theme again. Reset and begin from scratch or use it as it was?

    Best regards

    Eduard

    (@cteduard)

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @jackmac71

    I can assure you that changing a theme cannot interact with another plugin’s settings. It would be impossible for a theme to do that.

    Maybe your friend had some theme that had such data embedded into it? I cannot comment on that, unfortunately. However, I can say for sure that changing your theme cannot affect third party plugin data.

    I’m not sure what you’re referring to by “resetting the theme”. If a specific theme has never been installed on the site, it would not have any data to be reset, so it would basically be like starting from scratch with the theme’s customisations.

    Thanks.

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