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Change theme without losing Custom Post Type
1 reply · Started by anabella on April 18, 2021
Hi,
I want to change the theme: switch from a custom theme (custom-created by a web developer) to Generatepress, but I am a bit concerned about the custom post types: the original theme has 4 CPTs that were created as part of the theme, and these CPTs have quite a lot of content published, so I need to make sure that we don't lose anything.
I was able to found the code (how the CPT were registered), so I was thinking about switching to Generatepress and using the plugin Code Snippets to paste the code.
Is this the right approach?
Thank you in advance.
Hi there,
it may require a little more then just the code that registers the CPTs as the original theme may have some specific templates for displaying them.
Would suggest creating a staging site. Copy any functions ( CPT registration ) and save any .php templates being used for CPT. Then install the GeneratePress theme, download and install a Child Theme. .
The child theme will allow you to add the functions to the functions.php and save any templates to the child theme folder.
Then see whats working and whats not.
