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WordPress

Posted by paulhp
paulhp
4,053 Points

WordPress theme

I'd like to change my theme's name, for example: Thesis_v2.0 to something anything I wanted. What are the files that I need to update as my installation of WordPress does not work if I do change my theme's parent theme?

1 Answer

Gautam Thapar
Gautam Thapar
5,265 Points
Gautam Thapar
Gautam Thapar
5,265 Points

Theme name comes from style.css.

/*

Theme Name: Your Theme Name

Theme URI: http://example.com/

Description: Child theme for the Parent theme

Author: Your name here

Author URI: http://example.com/about/

Template: Parent Theme

Version: 1.0

*/

For detailed information refer to these links - http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes