Change display name of theme

  • How do I change the display name of my themes? The issue is that I added a plugin that allows visitors to select the theme in which they want to view my site, but I want them to show up in the drop-down list as “cleaner” names that I assign them.

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  • Hey!
    You can change the stylesheet in every theme you create to set it’s name as you want.

    The first few lines of the stylesheet looks like:

    /*
Theme Name: Rose
Theme URI: the-theme's-homepage
Description: a-brief-description
Author: your-name
Author URI: your-URI
Template: use-this-to-define-a-parent-theme--optional
Version: a-number--optional
.
General comments/License Statement if any.
.
*/

    There you can change the name to show in the drop-down list.

    More info here

    Thread Starter morphinejcc

    (@morphinejcc)

    I wish! I actually had already tried that, but unfortunately once I change that name (“Rose”, in your example) to anything else, my blog stops recognizing the theme at all, and I just get a white screen when I go to it. Any way to prevent this, or any other way to change the display name?

    I did it and it works, but anyway, maybe you can try to uninstall the theme before you change the name an reinstall it after that.

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