WordPress: Upgrading To A New Theme Is Not Fun
The upgrade to this new theme is almost complete – a couple of little quirks I need to iron first. At least WordPress makes it a little easier. If anyone knows how to get the comments activated on the static pages let me know. That is my biggest problem for now.
Upgrading to a new them is not just switching themes in your WordPress themes section. There is far more to it than that. I picked up a few tips from a post at Blog Marketing Journal titled WordPress Tips To Help With Site Maintenance.
If you have registered for third party entities like Feedburner, MyBlogLog, Google Analytics and so on, you have to be sure you transfer every snippet of code from one theme across to the next. There is at least one easy way to do it. Perhaps someone should create a plugin that handles all these snippets for you.
The easiest way I found to transfer from one theme to another is to have two WordPress theme editing windows open at the same time. One window with the current theme and the other window with the new theme. From there it is just a matter of checking each file and copying and pasting each snippet of code into the new themes files.
Make any other changes you need then send it live. Let me know what you think. There are still a few little tweaks I want to make – otherwise I am pretty happy with it. WordPress is still my preferred platform at present.
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