Andrea Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 I'm in the final stages of building my first Wordpress-based website for a client, and now that I thought I was done, they want to see different colors. Very frustrating that when I send them the first draft and asked for feedback and specific things they might not like or want to see differently before I continue, everything seemed to be great. But now, it seems we're changing one thing after another. That, however, was just my vent, not my question. So I have created a new, customized Wordpress theme for that site and now that the client would like to see different color schemes, I thought I'd just copy the entire theme folder, rename it, and make my changes to the style sheet, so the clients could play with the themes and see what they might like. HOWEVER - when I do that, I lose the dynamic side bar and I do not understand why/how that would happen. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 Is the sidebar widgetized? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted March 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 Yes - I'm using widgets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 Yes - I'm using widgets. Widgets may be unique to each theme -- as in, when you change themes, you'll lose your widget settings and you may need to visit the Widgets page and make sure those are set up correctly. Have you checked that? You've also changed the template name within the new template's style.css folder, right? Just throwing out ideas here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 Ben is correct. The widgets have to be set for each individual theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted March 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 Thanks guys - so much for my client easily flipping through themes and picking one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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