Good day ,
I was interested in installing newspaper theme, so for a demo i downloaded it from some other free website and installed it , i adjusted its look the way i wanted in my website. Now that i have purchased the newspaper6 theme and i wanted to install it, while activation in the wordpress theme install page it gave me an error Directory already exist, error installing theme.
I want to install it in a way that it does not change the current look , menus, categories and blocks of my website.
Please Help.
You should not download pirate versions of theme you download for “free off some website,” as that is not a licensed working version of theme …
You should fully remove that, then install the licensed version of theme. You can’t install two themes with same name at same time (see WP help at wordpress.org on how to install themes properly).
You can save settings from the custom CSS box, and export some theme settings, but since the version you had initially wasn’t “legal,” who knows what was in it, whether it was working right, had malware, etc. In theory, unless you edited core files, you should be able to delete old theme, install legal one, and you don’t lose any dbase settings, or the transient settings that WP holds onto.
Note also most theme devs don’t give support for stolen themes, only purchased ones.
I don’t work here, just some feedback as long time user.
You should also use SECURI’s free malware scanner to test your site for any malware added from the pir8 version you started with.
