Is it possible to change Newspaper folder name, for example “mydomain”? If I simple rename folder name, it doesn’t load web, I guess its logical.
The main point to change folder name is then you view “View page source” it’s showing Newspaper name. So I want to change it or hide.
Thank you
I would also like to know how to do this.
Basically, just change it.
Be sure the theme is not active; rename theme folder (generally you would do this on your PC/Mac prior to upload via FTP).
For example we change the name of our folder to our news network name.
Just change it from /Newspaper/ to something like /StyleBaron/ or whatever you website name happens to be — be careful NOT to name it the same as a category, post, plugin name, or WordPress function, just to be safe — like, don’t name it VisualComposer for example, or JetPack if you’re using jetpack, is tempting fate! hypehen and underlines can be used, like my-cool-mag … although I’d likely limit to 2 words, no reason you can’t do more.
If using a child theme you likely might need to check the style.css to make sure it points to the right place. I don’t use child themes, so if you don’t then it won’t apply to you either.
There is also an awesome resource called Google for many things like this — WP has been around over 10 years, so this is a very common question you can often answer yourself vs waiting for a reply here — not that anything wrong with that, or looking for pointers here from others who have already done the deed. 🙂
(pardon typos; this keyboard starting to die as is my brain …)
Thank you Chris, it helped.
One more question:
Is it possible to change or hide this one?
var td_ajax_url=”http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?td_theme_name=Newspaper&v=6.4″;
I mean th_theme_name NEWSPAPER &v=6.4 ?
After I have changed NEWSPAPER folder name, I have noticed that all menu (header and footer) disappeared.
One more issue:
after changed folder name, disappeared all sidebars.
Hi,
The Newspaper&v=6.4 is defined here – http://screencast.com/t/3Ol8ZIqSvy9m – the version constant here – http://screencast.com/t/bfvn3NnkI
If you change the folder name wordpress will consider it as another theme and it will create a new table in the database for it. This means that all settings will be lost.
Thank you!
Emil,
So how hide theme name and version?
How to upload all settings in “new” theme?
Yes, when you change name of theme — it’s like switching to new theme. A lot of settings need to be redone.
So, you would need to reset home page, sidebars, menus, widgets, etc. — just like if you switched to another theme; since that *is* what you’re doing.
The code I provide in my sticky optimization post has some code to use to try to hide the version?=123 stuff. Take a look at that if you want; it’s for the functions.php file.
