Install Magento template over existing store without SQL import

The following tutorial will show you how to install Magento template to existing Magento website.

Important notice! Magento engine versions of your current website and the new Magento template should be the same.

Step 1. Installation to the separate location

First of all, you need to install your new template to the separate place at your localhost or live server (create the new database, folder etc.)

Step 2. Installation to the existing store

As soon as you installed Magento sotre and the template to the separate location you can proceed with the template installation to your existing store

1. Upload the folders "app", "skin" and "media" of the new template to your working Manegto installation.

2. At the admin panel go to System>Design and select the default theme.

3. Choose the new theme which should appear after uploading "app", "skin" and "media" folders of the new template to your server.

4. Go to your fresh-installed Magento store admin panel (the one that you installed to the separate location) and go to CMS>Pages>Home page>Content

5. If you don't see the code, please, disable the WYSIWYG editor clicking "Show/Hide Editor". Copy the code from the "Content" field and replace it with the code that you have on the same page at your current website admin panel.

The same action should be performed for the "Design" tab. Copy the XML content to your existing store

The "Layout" setting at your website should be the same as at the new template.

6. Go to CMS>Static blocks and replace the code from each static block of the new template to each of your website's "Static blocks" except the "Footer links".

Note, that you may need to create new static blocks.

Save the changes and refresh your website.

We recommend clear and disable the Magento cache when editing the static pages.