Title: Keep current Active theme while working on new theme?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Keep current Active theme while working on new theme?

 *  [mollymoney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mollymoney/)
 * (@mollymoney)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-current-active-theme-while-working-on-new-theme/)
 * Is there a way to view another theme for admin while maintaining the active theme
   for visitors? I’d like to work on another theme but do not want to have to activate
   it for others to see while I tweak.

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 *  [mrkingid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrkingid/)
 * (@mrkingid)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-current-active-theme-while-working-on-new-theme/#post-612822)
 * [http://blog.oneortheother.info/?p=167](http://blog.oneortheother.info/?p=167)
 *  Thread Starter [mollymoney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mollymoney/)
 * (@mollymoney)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-current-active-theme-while-working-on-new-theme/#post-612831)
 * Perfect. Thank you very much. 😀

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