Question about renaming theme name/folder

Hi, folks
prepping to update some of my oooold websites, running older version of Newsmag.

[[ TL/DR: can I rename theme folder ? ]]

I note on the older sites we had done custom theme name due to some old, perhaps still wise, security practices, where we would rename the theme name folder.

e.g.,
/wp-content/themes/newsmag
changed to
/wp-content/themes/s2p

Curious before I do this, if there will be any known issue in changing theme folder name?

The idea was in old days of stopping bot intrusion attempts via popular themes, looking for any known page builder vulnerabilities. Not sure this is needed with stuff like WordFence, etc., and well known htaccess WP security settings to disable access to certain files.

However, for updating, seems like it’s going to make sense to update theme in same folder name as we’d used in past.

I am guessing this will be fine. Just not sure if there is any license element that will always look for
mysite/contentfolder/themes/newsmag for anything.

Just being paranoid, as that’s how I roll. 🙂

Thanks!

Hi
I always do manual ftp installs – I’m old skool 🙂

Thanks. I had renamed folder in past as old security practice, so thought maybe good idea to keep doing so as not been hacked, while using newsmag since first launch.

Peace out 🙂