remake of Website with TT4

  • Resolved hellblauervogel

    (@hellblauervogel)


    5 months ago

    Dear all,

    a customer of mine, an eye doctor wants to have a remake of his Website, which he himself built with WordPress and Divi. The goal is that I do a new Website, using some parts of the old one so as e.g. the registration tool, now using simply TT4 theme + custom CSS.

    The only thing I know in WordPress is TT4 and I do not have much idea of Divi. Next week he will send me the log in data so that I can start.

    Can I also create a child theme and then use TT4?

    How can this technically work? What would you recommend to me`?

    Thank you so much in advance for your help.

    Greetings from Vienna,

    Angelika

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  • Moderator jordesign

    (@jordesign)

    Hi @hellblauervogel – that sounds like a great project to embark on.

    Migrating from Divi to a default theme (like TT4) and the block editor can be a bit tricky. But it’s definitely possible. The short answer is that there isn’t way to simply ‘convert’ the site over.

    The main thing to do would be to activate Twenty Twenty Four. You’ll end up with the header, footer, and general styles of TT4 – but the content in your posts will continue to use Divi’s markup. It may look like a bunch of [code like this] when Divi is deactivated.

    One option is to create a duplicate/staging version of the site - and then copy/paste the content over to make sure you get all the content from the Divi version.

    Or you could look into this tool - which attempts to convert some of those [divi codes] to native blocks in the editor.

    https://github.com/a8cteam51/divi-migration-tools/

    Thread Starter hellblauervogel

    (@hellblauervogel)

    Dear Jordesign,

    Thank you so much for your help and sharing your knowledge!

    I do have still one question on this one. Another possible way that came to my mind is as many changes have to be done to the website is to create a TT4 child and do the complete site newly in TT4. No problem.

    Crucial points to me, of which I have to less understanding.

    a) That is what the page looks like now. Not nice.

    https://www.augenarzt-landstrasse.at/

    The main thing that the doc needs from the old site is the registration tool for his patients. Is this registration tool just a plugin that I can also use then for the TT4 remake of the website?

    b) Considering I successfully built the site + registration tool and everything in TT4. How can I then switc to the new website? I mean I cannot delete the old one. The doc wants to keep the old one and have it saved just in case. But how does that work + that the new tt4 website has then the above mentionned address?

    Thank you and BR

    Angelika

    Moderator jordesign

    (@jordesign)

    The main thing that the doc needs from the old site is the registration tool for his patients. Is this registration tool just a plugin that I can also use then for the TT4 remake of the website?

    Contact and registration forms are definitely something you’ll need a plugin for. I’d recommend checking out these options:

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search/form/

    Considering I successfully built the site + registration tool and everything in TT4. How can I then switc to the new website? I mean I cannot delete the old one. The doc wants to keep the old one and have it saved just in case. But how does that work + that the new tt4 website has then the above mentionned address?

    This is probably beyond the scope of the support we can offer in the forums here. But you’d essentially need to point the domain from where the old site is hosted, to wherever the new site is hosted. Your web host should be able to help with that side of things.

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