Test theme

  • Hi there,

    I would like to use a new theme on my existing site but it will take me a while to customise it and I don’t want any downtime with my current site.

    How can I work on this ”new site” and then, make it become my main site once I have it all ready without messing anything up?

    The reason I need to set it up is because when I preview the new theme, everything is a bit all over the place!

    Hope this makes sense and that there is an easy-ish way ??

    Thank you!
    mimi

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    Thread Starter mimibondi

    (@mimibondi)

    Thanks Esmi! That sounds great but does that mean I could rename categories, move posts and menus around without users seeing it and then apply that theme when I am all set??

    No – you can only test the theme out. If you really want to play with the site’s content, then I’d suggest setting up a new test install – perhaps a a local install. You can import content from the live site and play with everything to your heart’s content.

    Thread Starter mimibondi

    (@mimibondi)

    Thanks for your reply Esmi.
    I have set up a subdomain and install wordpress with the new theme and imported my posts/pages/etc.
    If I set up the new site like I want it there, is there an easy to then move the whole thing to replace my current files/site?
    I don’t want the whole thing to go wrong ??

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