Theme Test Drive

Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one. It happens completely transparently and they will not even notice you run a different theme for yourself. Best part is you can even set the testing theme options (if it has them) in the Admin panel while you are testing the theme.

Since version 2.0 Theme Test Drive features instant theme preview using a website thumbnail service.

You can also preview any theme by adding "?theme=xxx" to your blog URL. For example http://www.myblog.com/?theme=Default (theme name is case-sensitive!)

For all questions about the plugin please visit my WordPress forums.

Download

• Download: Theme Test Drive

Installation & Usage

1. Upload the plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
3. Use the Options page to set the theme you want to test drive.

The selected theme will be visible only to blog administrator. Other visitors of the site will always see the default theme.

Note: if you use WP-Cache plugin, you might need to disable it (or setup to exclude pages)

Changelog

v2.6: Added user access level

v2.0:

• Instant theme preview using a live thumbnail preview
• Added "?theme=xxx" to your URL's to preview the desired theme. Example http://www.myblog.com/?theme=Default

Nov 29th, 2007 v1.0
* Initial release

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