Can I Switch Templates Later?
No. Once a site exists, the starting point you picked is fixed. There is no control that swaps one kit or look for another, and no way to ask us to do it for you.
That sounds worse than it is, because the starting point is not what your site looks like today. It is where your site began. Almost everything a reader would call "the template" can still be changed.
| What you might want to change | Can you? | How |
|---|---|---|
| Colours, type, the overall feel | Yes | Studio |
| Which sections a page has, and their order | Yes | Studio |
| Your header, menu and footer | Yes | Studio |
| Pages: add, remove, rename | Yes | Studio |
| Wording, photos, content | Yes | Studio |
| The kit or look the site started from | No | Make a new site |
Restyle what you have
This is the right answer most of the time. If a bakery site feels too soft, or a musician site feels too loud, the fix is not a different kit, it is your colours and type. Studio changes those across the whole site at once, and you watch it happen as you go.
The same is true of structure. A section you never use can go. A section you wish you had can be added. Pages work the same way. By the time you have done that, "which kit did this start from" stops being a question anyone can answer by looking.
See Editing your site in Studio.
Start a new site instead
Sometimes the honest answer is that the shape is wrong, not the styling. A site built around a menu is not the quickest route to a site built around tour dates, and you would spend longer bending it than building it.
In that case make a new site and pick the starting point you want this time. On a paid plan you can run more than one, and your content is shared across the business rather than trapped inside one site, so what you have written can appear on the new one. See Creating a site and Plans and Billing.
Deleting the old site is a separate decision
A new site does not replace the old one. Take your time, get the new one how you want it, and only then decide what happens to the first. Check your web address too, since a domain can only point at one site at a time.
Picking well the first time
Since the choice sticks, it is worth a minute at the start. Two questions do most of the work:
- Is there a kit for my kind of business? Take it. It arrives with the pages that kind of business actually needs.
- Is the shape right, even if the colours are not? Then it is the right pick. Colours are the easy part.
Choosing a template goes through what is on the shelf.