Title: Use/Test New Theme
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Use/Test New Theme

 *  [echo9er](https://wordpress.org/support/users/echo9er/)
 * (@echo9er)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usetest-new-theme/)
 * I’m wanting to chnage to another theme. Would like to know if I can make the 
   changes I want on my computer before uploading to my server. I want to work with
   and test links, etc in the new theme before I go live. Is this possible?
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usetest-new-theme/#post-294121)
 * you’ll need to install php and mysql on your machine, then WP, and you’ll be 
   fine.
 * For windows, follow this tutorial
    [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/)
 *  if you’re on a mac, let me know, and I’ll find the link for that as well. Not
   as complicated, as PHP is already there.

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