The request
“We're planning to move to a new theme. The theme developers referred us to you. Before we switch, we want to know which of our customizations can come with us and what it'll take.”
Switching themes with years of customizations at stake.
The approach
We inventoried the customizations on the current theme, identified which the new theme handled natively, and rebuilt the rest on the new theme. The retailer reviewed the new theme on a duplicate before publish.
What we shipped
Customization inventory from the old theme
Redundant customizations retired
Remaining customizations rebuilt on the new theme
Reviewed and approved before publish