Title: testing new theme?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# testing new theme?

 *  [maestro42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maestro42/)
 * (@maestro42)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-new-theme/)
 * I am designing a new theme for my site – but don’t want to change the theme while
   the site is live. I am really not happy with the way the preview theme plugin
   works.
 * Can I build the site on another domain I own – but point the wp-config.php information
   to my current mySQL database? Would that work?
 * Or, in the alternative, if I create a new database and build the theme on this
   other domain – can it be easily switched to my live domain when I am ready to
   make the switch (so I don’t have to redo all the pages, posts, etc)
 * Thanks!

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 *  [asfodel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asfodel/)
 * (@asfodel)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-new-theme/page/2/#post-791026)
 * > I have two WordPress blogs on the same domain, each with their own folder and
   > database. I use one of these blogs for testing and working on my themes, and
   > it is blocked with robots.txt and set to private with WordPress.
 * This is what I would like to do. I’m wondering if there’s a way to install the
   content (posts and pages) of my blog to the test blog, so I can see the new theme
   with my actual content.
 * (Could I just do a “Restore” via cpanel and “restore” my backup of wrdp1 to wrdp3?)

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 * Last reply from: [asfodel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asfodel/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-new-theme/page/2/#post-791026)
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