What will happen when I switch to Jupiter X theme
Warning: It is extremely important that you create a complete WordPress backup before switching to Jupiter X. You may use the All-in-One WP Migration plugin to completely backup your WordPress website.
Also, make sure to read this article before switching to Jupiter X.
Things That Will Not be Affected by a Switch
- Your WordPress posts and pages will be unaffected by the switch to Jupiter X. However, depending on if you wish to switch to Elementor page builder from the WPBakery Page Builder, it will require manual rebuilding of your pages content in Elementor.
- All your media uploads will be unaffected by the Jupiter X switch. However, you may need to regenerate image sizes after switching to Jupiter X.
- The default WordPress settings located under the Settings menu will also remain unaffected.
Page Content (shortcodes)
The shortcodes that you used with WPBakery Page Builder, won’t work with Elementor Page Builder.
If you want to move all your old pages to Elementor, you’ll have to create new pages and build new content from scratch using Elementor editor.
Theme Options
Theme Options panel is removed in Jupiter X. From now on you can style the header, footer, sidebar, fonts, etc. via Appearance > Customize. What’s great, is that you can view the changes on front-end while modifying the settings in Customizer.
Also you’ll be able to create templates for 404 page, Search and Maintenance pages and set them in the settings.
Post Types
The post types (Portfolio, Employees, Edge Slider, Clients, etc.) are no longer present in Jupiter X theme, except of Portfolio post type.
They are not needed any more as Elementor provides much more opportunities and you can create any content with it.
Widgets
Also most of the widgets from Jupiter 6.x were removed in Jupiter X theme. There are only two Jupiter widgets:
- Jupiter – Social Networks
- Jupiter – Posts
As in the previous theme, Social Networks widget adds social network icons on your site and Posts widget gives you possibility to show posts from Blog or Portfolio post types and you can choose a category to specify which posts to load.
Templates
In Jupiter 6.x theme when you wanted to install a template via Jupiter Control Panel, you got the template pages created with WPBakery Page Builder.
In Jupiter X theme it was changed as the main builder is Elementor now.
So the templates in Jupiter X Control Panel will be imported with Elementor itemsand you won’t be able to use the templates with WPBakery Page Builder.
