When changing themes, what else changes?

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    thusspokejon · Member ·

    When changing themes:
    1- Will it migrate all your posts? (written or photos)
    2- Will it change your posts in any way?
    3- Will it alter your photo gallery options?
    4- Will anything else change?
    Apparently it doesnt migrate your widgets or header settings or am I missing something?

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    justpi · Member ·

    1. Of course. (Actually it’s not a case of “migrating”, it’s just giving a different appearance to the same content.)
    2. Depends on what you mean by “change”.
    3. No.
    4. Depends on the theme – can’t give a general answer.
    (5a.) Widgets move to Inactive (because the structure of each theme is different: some have one sidebar, some have more than one sidebar, some have footer widget areass as well or only footer widget areas). You just go to Appearance > Widgets and drag your widgets to the widget area(s) of the new theme.
    (5b.) If by “header settings” you mean the header image: each theme has different header dimensions, so you need to re-upload the image. For best results create a new version of the image, in the exact dimensions the theme specifies.

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    thusspokejon · Member ·

    ok, that answered most of my questions. Out side of alteration of the blog due to different column widths, I assume nothing else changes. I noticed pw always tries to get rid of a line between paragraphs so I always have to add it back in when altering the post. When I go to a new theme, I would hope I wouldnt have to go back and alter each post.

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