Beta Theme

  • cstephen

    (@cstephen)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    I have a theme that I’m happy with at the moment but I want to change things up a little. I want more of a news/magazine feel to the site instead of the standard blog. I found a few templates so far that I’m interested in configuring to see if I like them. My question is, is there a way I can keep my current theme up and running while I upload and customize the new theme? Like when companies change their layout but work on it in the background and when it’s done they present it and it replace the old site.

    If I’m not able to do this with WordPress and I have to make the new theme active in order to make the changes I want is there a way to go back to my old theme without losing any of the information/changes that I made to it? Or would i have to start from scratch again with that theme?

    I’m not good with coding. Thanks in advance.

    http://www.mymontage.net

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  • Caroline Moore

    (@sixhours)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Go to Appearance -> Themes, find the new theme you want to test and click on the Preview link underneath. This will pop up an overlaid frame that will give you an idea of how the theme will look when applied to your current content but won’t activate the theme for your viewers.

    You can open the preview frame in a new window or tab and just refresh it each time you make changes. I find that’s easier than trying to work within the pop-up.

    Thread Starter cstephen

    (@cstephen)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks you for the reply. I did this but for some reason it doesn’t allow me to make any changes to the template. And when I click on anything on the page it takes me to the page but in my current template. It looks like if I want to play around with the new template I’ll have to activate it and then customize it.

    I’m just going to copy all text/code that I have in my widgets and code that I put in footer/header like google analytics etc. and make the switch, just incase it gets deleted during the transition.

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