Can I change the theme name in WordPress?

Question

How can I change the theme name in WordPress and where?

Can I also change the folder name theme1244 in public/wp-content/themes/theme1244 without having problems in the future?

Answer 1

I changed my theme name in wp-content/themes/{your site name folder}/style.css I am using a child theme

/*
Theme Name: WhateverYouWantToNameIT
Template: twentytwenty 
*/

Answer 2

All the above is correct, but is not enough. After you rename the theme, e.g. rename the folder old-theme --> new-theme, you should copy the theme customizations (colors, header / footer, widgets, etc.) from the old theme to the new theme. This is done directly in the MySQL database:

1. Find an option named theme_mods_old-theme in the table wp_options
2. Copy the option_value (it is a text holding the theme customizations in a special WordPress format)
3. Put the copied value in a new option named theme_mods_new-theme in the wp_options table.

Answer 3

Step 1: Firstly go to wp-content/themes/ folder. And then rename your theme folder to whatever you want.

Step 2: Open your theme folder and open style.css file. In top part of style.css you will see theme name. Rename it and save changes.

Step 3: Go to Wp-admin/appearance/themes and activate your theme under new name.

If you are using child/parent theme and you also rename parent theme folder&name, so after Step 3 you should additionally change parent theme path in child theme’s style.css.

note : renaming your theme will stop its automatic updates, you should do it manually in the future.

Answer 4

Its absolutely easy and simple, just follow instruction
1. Just rename theme name with your desire theme name.
2. open your desire theme name and open style.css file, and find theme name and changes with your desire theme name.
3. you can see your desire theme in admin dashboard-> appearance-> themes, just select and activate it.

Answer 5

You can absolutely change the name of the folder without having any problems. If you want to change just the themes name, open the style.css in the root folder of your theme and edit the name in the comments at the top of the file. If you plan on doing more changes, you might be better off creating a child theme: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes