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1. JimSeybert
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm happy with my current theme, but I would like to see what my content looks like on a couple of different themes.

   Is there a way to bata test all my content, widgets, plugins, - everything - on a new theme without affecting the current version?

2. dremation
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   2 options. EasyPHP or ThemeDreaver. EasyPHP is free. It installs a localized version of Apache, PHP, MySQL. You'll have to run a quick install of WordPress and then you can test away. ThemeDreaver runs like $70 I think and it doesn't always show all content/widgets.

3. JimSeybert
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'll give EasyPHP a whirl - thank you

4. figaro
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If you have trouble getting easyphp working, you may want to give XAMPP a try...see the following video for step-by-step procedures to get WordPress running using XAMPP.

   http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=154

5. dremation
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   TIP: when you go to install WP on your local machine.. browse to

   http://127.0.0.1/
   DB Name: test
   USER: root
   PASS: leave empty

   if you want to change this then go to http://127.0.0.1/home/mysql/
   there you can create a db.

6. JimSeybert
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Should mention - I'm on a Mac
   OX 10.4 (Tiger)
   Would that matter for any of these?

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