Question about theme duplicating

[Zippeh XF]

I have a question, I have this theme i bought, but i want to duplicate the theme more then once so that I can set different backgrounds so users can choose the background they want to use. , i have no problem redoing all the addons that involve modifying the templates if i have to.

I looked online and it said download the theme and then rename it and upload it as its own theme but when i do that the background and theme is just white, i made sure i was doing the correct theme but i couldnt get it to work correctly.
So how could i duplicate the themes and get exactly the same thing.

[ForceHSS]

Have you tried downloading the one you have installed then install it under a different name

[Zippeh XF]

yes, the current one is named <clan name> War
and i renamed the xml file and such to <clan name> Halo as i wanted a halo background for the halo players but it did not work right, when i uploaded it, everything was plain white.

[ForceHSS]

Looks like u will need to upload the one you paided for then change what is needed

[Seven Skins]

If you only want to make changes to the background etc ... make a child theme and edit this child theme.

Duplicating theme is more complicated then the above solution as you have edit stylevars and css files.

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by Zippeh XF

yes, the current one is named <clan name> War
and i renamed the xml file and such to <clan name> Halo as i wanted a halo background for the halo players but it did not work right, when i uploaded it, everything was plain white.

Sounds VERY obvious to me you aren't using the correct file paths. If I were you I'd worry about layout and content before I started changing anything. Ya never know, by then then you may have a pile of copies to do whatever with?

[Zippeh XF]

Question, for child themes, do u have to modify their coding too when you add new one to the parent one? just a question

[Seven Skins]

Suppose you just want to change the background of the site, then you just need to edit one stylevar or one line of code in the css template depending on how the skin is coded. No need to edit the XML files.