Changing Themes after using CPT UI and Custom Forms

  • Resolved rodsaundershk

    (@rodsaundershk)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    I inherited support of a site that is using both CPT UI and Custom Fields pluggins.

    It has a ‘custom’ theme that I really want to get away from, but there is a ton of content and link work that I do not want to recreate. The CPT and Custom Fields work is not transferring with a basic theme switch.

    It is not clear to me how the Theme could block the CPT UI work from carrying over. Does anyone have any ideas? or advice on how to proceed.

    WP wise, I am not a novice, not a pro, just enough to survive and be dangerous.

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    Good day @rodsaundershk

    Custom Post Type UI itself doesn’t handle any details with the theme/template files. It simply does the registration of post types/taxonomies for you. They should be getting registered regardless of what theme is active. However, if someone moved the registration away from our plugin, and made them get registered in say the functions.php file for a specific theme, then we can’t control that.

    Regarding custom field display, that’s very likely heavily tied in to the theme files, thus why you’re struggling to move to a different theme without losing its output. More often than not, that is going to be the case as well on this topic. May not be able to get away from having to manually move those parts over.

    That said, there’s really not much that we can do from our end of the situation at hand.

    Thread Starter rodsaundershk

    (@rodsaundershk)

    Thank you for the quick reply.

    I think the CPT is registering normally, you are probably right on it being in the Custom Fields.

    When you say –

    “May not be able to get away from having to manually move those parts over.”

    Do you mean re-enter the page/post data or change a field setting / file location?

    Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    That comment was all related to spots in the theme files and the display of the custom field values.

    The actual values are stored in the database and not tied to the theme directly. So those should be able to be displayed again.

    Thread Starter rodsaundershk

    (@rodsaundershk)

    Thank you for your time and quick responses.

    Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    Welcome.

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