Replacing an Existing Website

[jmanas]

In addition to using Author Pro for my fiction writing website (www.jbmanas.com), I like it so much that I'd like to also use it for my existing nonfiction writing website (www.jerrymanas.com, which uses an entirely different WordPress theme). I've added the Genesis and Child themes to that site but haven't activated them. The last time I tried to activate the Author Pro one on that site, I got some kind of error (I don't recall what it was exactly but it had to do with a line in a file that wasn't found).

Here's my question. As a last resort, is there a way I can just copy my entire fiction website (theme, pages, and all) to my nonfiction site, and then simply update the new page content manually? Do I need to do that in the Cpanel?

I'd much rather just install the theme on the other site, and gradually build it out without disrupting my existing site until I'm ready to go live, but I don't see a way to do that. I'm even okay if it takes a full day and my site is down, but I just don't want to lose my old site if I can't get it working. I was hoping installing the theme and sample would create the new pages, and then I could copy the text from the existing pages to the new ones.

Any thoughts on the best way to get this theme installed on my other, already existing, website? I'd like to use the new page templates instead of the old existing ones.

http://www.jbmanas.com

[Brad Dalton]

You could test it all locally first or use a staging site like what WPEngine offer.

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