Choose a theme around the type of website you are building and the functions you already use. A business information site, a portfolio and a WooCommerce store may have different layout and integration needs. Check whether the candidate theme supports the editor and plugins that your existing pages depend on before making it live.

Changing the active theme can affect headers, footers, navigation placement, page templates, typography and other shared design elements. Existing content may remain in WordPress while appearing differently under the new theme. A preview or staging copy is the right place to identify those differences and finish the design before customers encounter it.

We recommend taking a current backup, testing the new design and checking key pages on both mobile and desktop. Review long titles, product pages, search results, forms and any layout built with a separate page builder. Confirm that buttons and menus lead to the correct destinations after the switch.

If you want AI to generate an entirely new starting website, use the full builder with its wider scope in mind. It prepares its supported block theme and may replace earlier builder-created pages when you select a rebuild option. For a modest refresh, editing your current theme and content may be more suitable. Tell our team which parts of the current site you want to preserve so we can help you choose the appropriate route.

Installing a theme adds its files. Activating it makes it the active theme and changes the design visitors see. Preview an installed theme or test it on staging before activation. The full AI website builder has a wider workflow and can activate its supported theme during a build.

1. Choose a design compatible with the editor, plugins and store features your website uses.
2. Preview or test it on staging, checking shared templates as well as ordinary pages.
3. Before activating it live, preserve a backup and verify menus, forms and important customer pages on mobile and desktop.

A child theme can depend on its parent even when the parent is not the active theme. Keep both where required. If you use the AI builder instead of a normal theme switch, account for its wider scope, published pages and replacement option rather than assuming it performs only a cosmetic change.

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