Creating a home page mockup

  • Hey I am going to try and explain this as clearly as I possibly can ??

    I am changing the layout of the company i work for homepage.
    I am keeping the same theme, I am just wanting to delete bits/ rearrange.

    They want to see a live mockup of the homepage before I make the changes.
    I just wondered how I could do this?!

    Would it be possible to create a draft unpublished homepage?

    Many Thanks! ??

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  • Maybe do this:
    Copy the homepage template file e.g. home.php

    Call it tmp-home.php and add this at the top:

    /*
Template Name: Preview Home
*/

    Upload it
    Create a new page in WP and assign it that template on the right and publish the view it. This should (as long as you do not have a lot of complicated custom fields and logic) show your new homepage separately from the atual homepage.

    For a bit of added security/hide from search you could publish it as private.

    Alternatively you could copy and paste the entire theme and call it something else e.g. mythemev2, remember to change style.css

    Upload that and then use this plugin to preview your new theme while the site uses the old one:
    https://en-gb.www.ads-software.com/plugins/theme-preview/

    obviously make your changed to homepage in the second v2 theme.

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