Yes! you of course can edit a theme from the wordpress theme editor however I wouldnt recommend editing a live site on the spot. The best way to go about this is to setup a localhost which allows you run wordpress from a test environment on your own computer.
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Jabbok
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OK…sounds good. How do I set up a localhost?
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Jabbok
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Great! Thanks. Now, how do I set up a localhost on my computer? A link to instructions would be helpful.
You can also install a second instance of wordpress in its own folder on your server and mess with a new theme there. That’s what I’m currently doing.
(To do this you simply follow the wordpress installation instructions from the start..including creating a (second) SQL database for this purpose)
Or you can just use the plugin that makes the admin theme different from the user theme.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-test-drive/
Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.
Im using it on my webpage and have had no problems what so ever. It works like a charm =)
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Jabbok
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All excellent help! Thank you very much.
I’ve never worked with wordpress before, so I decided I would create a new theme based on the default theme. I copied the ‘default’ directory to ‘d2’ and with no other edits, went to the preview pane. It was there, but I couldn’t preview it (blank screen). I thought it was just a name space collision or is there something I should be aware of? I tried changing the Template name, version, author, description (and those changes showed up), and clearing the browser cache, but it still wouldn’t preview.
