Rating: 5 stars
Installed, turned on the toolbar, tested with Twenty-Twenty.
Took a couple of minutes, worked beautifully. Amazing.
Lifesaver.
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Looks like a neat plugin. Trying to figure out how to let users switch themes, so they can view my website if they happen to be visually-impaired. I think this plugin will help me do that.
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This did exactly what I needed it for, i.e. testing how much was going to change when I did an actual change of theme, without showing anything to the public. It gave me the confidence to update the ancient clunky theme previously used, with a lean and modern one. Thank you Jeff Starr!
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Great plugin. Provides a sandbox for testing theme changes before publishing to the live environment
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I used the plugin to install and setup a complicated theme on a live site without any problems.
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Great plugin and support!
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Built to work without any nonsense. This is absolutely BEST!!
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Three stars since I understand that this is a no-cost plugin and I have used it previously with no issues.
Take great care if you are using a premade, bloated theme (ours was on top of divi). Installed plugin, switched themes and everything went upside down. Main site 500, admin 500. Went through the typical rename folder process etc to disable. Still throwing the errors. It could be related to Divi, but I can’t say for sure. I’m guessing the outcome is shared between the two though. Database was still showing proper theme in wp_options.
IF YOU RUN INTO THIS ISSUE —
1- Optional – add something to index.php like “Maintenance” then die(). Just to shield users from different theme (#3)
2- Rename plugin folder to disable.
3- Rename current theme folder (this should unlock the admin).
4- You will see the original theme will still be active (even though the folder was renamed). Enable any other theme.
5- Page will refresh. You will now see the correct number of themes.
6- Rename theme folder back to original name
7- Refresh themes page in admin
8- Reactivate the original theme you were using.
9- If you added the info in #1, remove.
I’ve been doing this for almost 13 years now and I’ve rarely, if ever, come across something that broke things as badly. Error logs were of no use. I am very capable and very few people would have likely known how to recover from this.
Hopefully the steps above can help give the developer some insight.
You can likely also avoid this issue by backing up your database before plugin install — always suggested and this will be a good reminder to me to do it…
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I really like this simple approach to switching themes without affecting live sites.
Great support and documentation. Easy to install and use.
Rating: 1 star
It doesn’t show you anything that you wouldn’t see by just actually, you know, switching your themes. I guess I was expecting something more useful, but this ain’t it.
Also, appears to redirect to the main domain, when the site I’m working on is on a sub domain.
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I dealt with Jeff about 2 years ago, and though his website blog and code snippets, all I have to say he is awesome ! So when I discovered this plugin a few days ago and when I realized who made it, I had to give it a try.
The bottom line about this plugin: If you know what you are doing, and follow his on screen instructions, this plugin is also awesome !
What makes me appreciate this developer even more is the fact that on the plugin’s options screen he has a small non intrusive link asking for reviews, unlike some others who really turn you off with the constant nagging and begging, or even worse the inclusion of Freemium or other “spying” scripts.
Thanks a million Jeff,
Nick.
Rating: 5 stars
Very useful, and easy to use. It does the job perfectly!
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Useful tool for sending clients preview links to the new theme. Would love to be able to customise the ‘expire’ length of time on the cookie, but not a big deal. Thanks for all your work on this plugin. Works great and as expected.
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It’s one of my favorite plugins for developing and testing new themes in a productive environment, and also users can easily preview the new theme with the origin content.
Many thanks @specialk !
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Our site hosted over Nginx reverse proxy can’t push code to production, so we needed a plugin like this to switch to our new theme from within in the dashboard without interfering with the entire production environment container.
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Simple and straightforward and exactly what I need
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Such a easy-to-use, helpful plugin. Thanks a bunch!
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Spent hours debugging what was wrong with my child theme. Turns out, this plugin doesn’t load it at all. So in the end I had to disabled this plugin and change theme directly on production… which was not what I wanted to do, but had to.
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This is exactly what I was looking for when making major updates in my child themes. Works instantly without any troubles whatsoever. Thanks so much!
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Plugin works great for logged in users, but even with the setting set to “Everyone” the links do not work for logged out users.
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cool but i have a problem. The main menu is displayed, but only on one page. After switching to another topic, the main menu disappears.
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For multilingual sites.
AMazing.
Just install and use it.
Rating: 5 stars
I use this plug-in for building multilingual sites with one template and one DB and one WordPress and without any pressure to site.
Thanks God and thanks ThemeSwitcha.
Rating: 5 stars
This “Theme”-Switcher PlugIn works for me perfectly, if I need to change the webdesign completly to a new customer theme and the current WP WebCMS Installtion is productive with the old WP Theme! Only in the WP-Admin Area the new selected WP Theme is active/linked, great working experience!
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Thank you very much for this plugin, it’s really helpful while developing.
This plugin is now part of my dev tools that I use every day!
Thank you ??
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Thank you author for these plugin!
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It’s okay if you want to view changes to your future theme in the customise option but when you go live, all of your work disappears and you have to start again from scratch.
It does not do what it promises to do. Yes, you can view new themes before going live, but no, you cannot customise the theme and then keep the changes you made.
Before using this, make sure you don’t mind wasting a few hours of your precious time doing all of your hard work two or three times.
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Thought about creating a plugin like this. “Theme Switcha” handles all the things I thought of (and needed), but does them smarter ?? Thank you!
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As soon as I’ve activated this plugin and enabled theme switching, my site got messed up pretty badly.
In practice: my old theme used a child theme. The new theme (in development) was also a child theme. After I activated theme switching, the new child theme got copied to the old one, and the old one was gone / broken.
Thanks be to God for updraftplus – allowed me to restore things quickly.
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Didn’t work for me, for some reason.
A plugin like this should be straightforward to apply. Wasn’t for me. Scratched my head, and instead installed WP Theme Test and could continue with the task at hand.
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