How to work on theme without it showing…

Answering the question directly….. no there is not. But, what you can do is install WP localy on your machine (See https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/ for some info on doing this) and use the local copy to build your new site. Once it’s done, you can upload the needed files and activate the new theme.

-tg

Or you can use this plugin to make your site unavailable why you test your site.

I am at this very moment working on customizing a theme without having it live. What I do is copy the “ThemeX” directory into “ThemeX2” and rename the theme name in the css to “ThemeX2”. I then use the theme switcher plugin to switch to the test theme and hack away. Once done I copy the results into “ThemeX” (remembering to rename the theme name in the css).

All great advice. Thanks!

Or even easier: https://boren.nu/archives/2005/03/08/preview-theme-plugin/

thanks for those links – i’ve been looking for something just like that.
makes for tweak-ease. haha. ??

Wow. I really like that plugin 007…