Renaming Child Theme Breaks Widgets

[ilkweb]

I've always been able to easily customise the name of a child theme folder and build my site no problem.

My problem is that I cannot seem to change the child theme folder name without breaking the widget configurations.

Naturally, I always deactivate the current theme in order to change the name of the child theme folder but when I reactivate the theme the widgets from the homepage, sidebar etc are gone.

Is there a way to change the name of the child theme folder without having to deactivate the theme and lose all my widgets?

These widgets often contain a lot of information including HTML.

[Davinder Singh Kainth]

Such does happen when changing theme name or themes. Try using widget importer exporter plugin - https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-importer-exporter/

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[ilkweb]

Is there no other way to prevent this problem? I'll check out the plugin though. Thanks for the response Davinder.

[Susan]

When you change themes, the current widgets move to the "inactive widgets" area in your dashboard. You DON'T lose any of the settings within those widgets; you just need to move them back into the appropriate widget areas on your new theme.

[ilkweb]

Thanks for the tip Susan! So will the plugin that Davinder recommended put the widgets back into the right locations?

Thanks again.

[Susan]

Yes - it will add widgets where they belong, but in my experience, that only works when moving from one site to another with the same theme. (I may be wrong...)

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