{"id":1026,"date":"2023-08-16T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1026"},"modified":"2023-09-15T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:28:38","slug":"changing-wordpress-themes","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/kb\/changing-wordpress-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing WordPress Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Before following this tutorial, at a minimum, take a screenshot of the home page of your website. Content can move when switching themes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Log into your WordPress website as a web administrator and navigate to &#8220;Themes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1028\" style=\"width: 753px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1028\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Screenshot-2023-08-16-100415-370x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Screenshot-2023-08-16-100415-370x181.png 370w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Screenshot-2023-08-16-100415-1024x501.png 1024w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Screenshot-2023-08-16-100415-768x376.png 768w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Screenshot-2023-08-16-100415-1536x751.png 1536w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Screenshot-2023-08-16-100415.png 1906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WordPress Themes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>2. If your current theme is &#8220;IEEE Sites Theme (Official v.1.04)`&#8221;, for example, you can switch to a new theme by clicking &#8220;Activate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1029\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Activate-370x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Activate-370x180.png 370w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Activate-1024x499.png 1024w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Activate-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Activate-1536x749.png 1536w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Activate.png 1907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Once active, you can navigate to the website and click throughout the site to ensure menus, pages, posts, widgets, et cetera are functioning as expected. <strong>Please note:<\/strong> <em>Appearance of your website may need adjustment because themes may differ in design. For example, you may be using widgets that may not have a default location in the new design and will need to be <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/kb\/updating-widgets\/\">reenabled<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1030\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Visit-370x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Visit-370x181.png 370w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Visit-1024x500.png 1024w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Visit-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Visit-1536x751.png 1536w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/Visit.png 1907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before following this tutorial, at a minimum, take a screenshot of the home page of your website. Content can move when switching themes.<br \/>\n1. Log into your WordPress website as a web administrator and navigate to &#8220;Themes&#8221;.<br \/>\nWordPress Themes<br \/>\n2. If your current theme is &#8220;IEEE Sites Theme &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[116,113],"kbtag":[124,123],"class_list":["post-1026","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-ieee-template","kbtopic-sites-theme-2019","kbtag-themes","kbtag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/ewh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}