Guide To Blogging

Changing Your Blog Theme In Wordpress

Once you’ve decided on what theme you want for your blog and you’ve both uploaded it and changed it in your presentation menu you may soon find there’s a few other things you need to do.

While a lot of the basics stay the same with wordpress themes there are often a few differences. The first thing you’ll want to check is whether your new theme will accept any plugins you had used in the past.  If they are okay you may want to double check on your rss feed (while a standard wordpress feed is yourblogurl/feed this can sometimes get messed up if you change designs etc - a good suggestion when submitting rss feeds is to burn your feed at somewhere like feedburner etc so you get standard feed that can be used anywhere)

It will also pay to check any changes you’d previously made in your separate pages - your header, 404 page etc as these may not always transfer across. For example if you’d used an image in your header you may need to edit your header.php file (via the presentation/theme editor tab) to ensure your image is linked/visible.

Those are a few of the more common differences and as always I suggest before making too many wholesale changes to things you save any codes etc.