By default, the only way to see how a new theme looks on your site is to
activate it, making it visible to everyone who visits. With this plugin, it
is possible to view how a new theme looks without activating it.
- Upload the
theme-preview folder and its contents to your wp-contents/plugins directory.
- Activate in the
Plugins menu.
- Visit your site with a special parameter added to the URL
Add query variables
preview_theme and/or
preview_css to your query
string. For example, if you have a theme named "My Theme", which is
installed in your
wp-content/themes/my-theme directory, add the theme's
directory name to your URL like this:
http://example.com/index.php?preview_theme=my-theme
Sometimes, you create a new look for your site by just making new CSS, but
you keep the existing PHP files intact. In that case, you con use the
preview_css variable instead of
preview_theme, or use them both
together, like this:
http://example.com/index.php?preview_theme=default&preview_css=my-theme