Giving a new look to an existing WP page

  • Hi everyone!

    Given the following situation: We have three different wordpress pages, all from different years – that’s why they have also very different styles, themes and plugins. Our goal is to modernize them, standardize all three to have the same look and polish them.

    For simplicity, first assume that they all have the same page builder, e.g. Elementor (even if that’s really unrealistic): Is there any way to give them a new theme/look without losing content or having to do much manually? Some kind of export functionality maybe? I think most themes offer too many “own features” what makes them incompatible for newer themes…

    In case that they don’t share their page builders: Could this also work out for this case? Are there maybe any (automated) tools that cover this process or at least support it?

    I really appreciate any hint, even if they’re just rough ideas. Our current approach is to backup the pages, apply new themes and fix everything manually OR purge the websites and build them from skretch. Both approaches would cost us dozens of hours of work.

    Thanks in advance,
    David

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  • There is likely a lot of markup in the data that you do not want, and it won’t be consistent, and etc, etc, There is no easy way to approach this from an automation perspective. So – what can we automate? imo,

    1. Install a fresh copy of WordPress on a staging URL.
    2. Install the plugins you want to use, using the lowest common denominator.
    3. Use Admin –> Tools –> Export for pages, posts, all content. (or you could use a product like WP All In One Export)
    4. Use Admin –> Tools –> Import and import all your xml files.

    From here, you can use your Page Builder, or Template to determine the layout of your homepage, posts page, inside website.

    You want to get your staging site into the position where you have the Categories, Taxonomy, Page URLs and Page Titles and Blogs maintained. If you use a product like WP All Export you can migrate just the ID, and URL and Title. Obviously if you have 000s of pages to copy and paste a scrapper may be better. But if it’s only 00s of pages, copy and paste can be contracted out, or do yourself.

    Thread Starter davide4

    (@davide4)

    Hi @corrinarusso, thank you for your fast response! Alright then. Are there any fully free alternative plugins for migration without upload limitations?

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