First Time Coding a New Theme for Existing Site

  • I will be coding a new design for an existing website that’s already using WordPress. Normally when I code for a WP site I do it on my machine locally and then upload the site. My first thought is that to best way to do this is to download a copy of their current site and then build the new theme on my machine. Is this the most straightforward and efficient way? Opinions? Suggestions?

    Thanks,
    Adam

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  • No reason you need a copy of the site just for theme design, but if you want to mimic the data, so you’ve got a more realistic test environment, then by all means it’s a good idea..

    If the site in question has hundreds of tags, it would take some time to recreate several hundred to test against (if you need to test something that related to them in the design for example)…

    So perhaps the question is, does copying the content give you something you need to be able to test against, like large amounts of tags, taxonomies, or even category structures, that you’d otherwise be having to create in the test install manually..

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