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9:55 am
December 21, 2010
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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So I want to change my theme. My current theme has sooo many customization and it took almost a month to get it to where it is now. I am better now (I hope), but it might still take at least a week for me to customize any new themes. But I don't want my user to notice anything until I flip the switch. My question is – how do you test drive a theme before you deploy it? Is there a way for he admistrator to see all the changes while the users see the old theme?
I did some searching and found the theme test drive plugin – http://wordpress.org/extend/pl…..est-drive/ Anyone used it? Did you like it?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can offer.
Suba
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12:35 pm
December 21, 2010
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MyJourneytoMillions
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I use that plug in everytime before I re-design my blog (I am think I did it for the last time recently lol). It works GREAT except sometimes it will reset your side bars – your widgets will exist but you'll have to drag and drop them again.
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2:35 pm
December 21, 2010
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Thanks a lot, Evan. I will give it a try.
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2:52 pm
December 21, 2010
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Buy Like Buffett
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Another useful tip learned through the Yakeize. I didn't even know that you could test blog designs out via plugins.
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5:12 am
December 22, 2010
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Plugin looks great. I always just set it up on a test blog blocked from the search engines while doing a redesign.
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6:20 pm
December 22, 2010
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financialstudent
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Another option would be to setup a copy of your site on your computer. I did this on my Mac so I can test out theme tweaks or how a new layout element (ad, additional sidebar, etc.) will look. I don't like to mess with theme settings inside of Wordpress, and in the case of the Thesis theme, one small typo in my custom functions file can keep my site from loading. Another benefit to this is that I always have 2 copies of my theme files.
This is somewhat of an advanced thing to do, but it's nice to have.
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10:59 am
February 28, 2011
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Kevin McKee
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Once again, Yakezie comes through with a great solution. I'm looking to redesign my website with a new theme, and this is perfect. Thanks guys!
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