Dear Support
I have a situation where domain URL will change and this will occur most likely in the next 1 week. I am aware a single newspaper theme license is applicable per website URL (Staging or Live). Now the situation will be that the old site will keep redirecting to new site for a month until end of March 2023, and then the old site URL will be cancelled. In this situation, I am assuming that the license will be used for the new site so i will have to download the license key again (which will change every time you download it) from the tagDiv account and have to re-license it on the theme panel?
Moreover, another question is regarding WordPress site URL changes to the posts/pages URLs. Once it is applied for the new URL to the wordpress General settings, do you think it will auto re-generate existing urls reflecting new site url? What about the changes to the theme where i have put the logo url in absolute url format (full url)? does your theme support relatives urls such as /www/logo.jpg for example? Please suggest any tips, suggestions, advise for a smoother migration.
Thanks and regards
Muhammad
Hello Muhammad!
If you want to move the theme to another website or change domain/migrate, you’ll need to reset the license key from that website: https://www.screencast.com/t/Zt12bpyX and remove the theme (delete), in this way the license will be available for the new website and you can use the theme without any problems.
Use the Duplicator plugin to move the WordPress install from your main site to the other domain.
Thank you!
Hi Bettina
Thanks for your response.
In this case, it is just a domain name change, everything else remains the same: Website and its content in the worpress CMS that were recently developed in newspaper theme and almost ready to go live before this domain name change issue occurred.
1) So Would not deleting the theme delete all the theme settings as the folder in WordPress CMS: /wp-content/themes/newspaper ?
2) If theme is deleted, how then are theme settings preserved so the new domain inherit all the same settings, look and feel?
3) Will backing up the theme settings in theme panel via Export and Importing later to new theme achieve theme settings restore?
Please advise in the light of preserving the current theme settings and data.
Regards,
Muhammad
Hello Muhammad!
First, create a copy of your website using Duplicator. Then, unassign the license key from the website you have just created a copy of. After that, you can install that copy on your new website and assign the license to the current domain.
Thank you!
Hi Bettina
I understand the process, however, let me reiterate: There is no new website. It’s the same website with a mere domain name change.
– So the hosting provider is the same
– The location of the website such as /public_html/ remains the same. We’re not touching it.
Is there any reset for licensing required in this scenario asked?
Regards
Hello Muhammad!
Yes, because you’ll change the domain name.
Thank you!
Hi Bettina
I just went through the exercise. Sharing my experience that nothing other than one step is required in this scenario.
1. Assign the same license to the new domain which becomes visible in the “My License” tab in the Welcome screen. Please note no new license was acquired.
2. Un-assign the license from the old domain and you’re done.
So looking at this, even no reset was required and the licensing is not generating any issues with this.
Regards
