Change of theme name

Hello,

1. How can I change the theme name to for example, “Othername” so I get themes/Othername/style.css instead of themes/Newsmag/style.css.

2. Is it possible to have the frontpage side-bar as a smart-side bar? How do I do that?

Thank you

1.
this is covered in the WordPress codex a bit, but

a) change name in the style.css
b) change folder name for theme

Thanks but you didn’t say anything about the change of theme name.

why would like change the name of the theme you buy it no? your not the author of the theme.

• This reply was modified 9 years by dexro57.

@Chris S and Catalin Thanks.

@dexro57 For security reasons, I do not want the theme name to be visible when a visible tries to view the source code.

Note, that I usually change the theme name; however this does not actually “hide” which theme is being used due to the fact that style classes (td_) and ajax/css folders don’t get renamed.

I have found it more useful to change the name of wp-content to assets, and change the theme folder to “mycompany” (whatever), but it won’t stop a smart person from figuring out which theme you use completely.

Using something like mod_pagespeed on server also helpful to remove comments and spaces dynamically.

But if you “know what you’re doing” also remember there are things like readme file, theme snapshot image file (png), etc.

Basically you can make it harder for folks to see what you’re using, but a smarty pants could see the code, then do search online for similar code, where nothing is obfuscated.

Doesn’t hurt to do this kind of thing, just not actually hiding it all.

Put another way, a hacker can easily figure out which theme you’re using, and which plugins (I could).

This is useful to review:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

Well noted @Chris S. Thank you.

Our site only hacked once with WordPress; back in v 1.6 I think (Al Gore’s site hacked same time ours was). We learned back then to “think security first…” and thankfully WordPress has embraced this over the past decade, where initially they were about as clueless as rest of the internet (e.g., SSL 1, 2, 3; TLS 1 … was never secure…).