xnau webdesign

<p>This plugin was developed to allow a client or collaborators to see a new theme (or themes) before it goes live. The plugin allows you to select a theme to preview and then select the users that will see that theme. Everyone else will see the normal theme selected for the site. The previewed theme can be configured, with that configuration stored separately from the normal theme so when the theme is previewed by another user it will use the saved configuration.</p>
<p>Preview is available to several WP user roles, so Authors and Editors can also preview a theme as though it were a live site.</p>
<p>The plugin requires the previewing user to be logged in.</p>
<h4>Configure a Theme Behind the Scenes</h4>
<p>This plugin differs from most “theme switcher” plugins or the Theme Customizer preview in that it allows the previewed theme to be fully configured before going live. The settings for the previewed theme are saved separately, so when the theme is switched over, all the settings are in place.</p>
<h4>Child Themes</h4>
<p>This plugin is compatible with the use of child themes. You can create several child themes and preview them as separate themes.</p>
<h4>Limitations</h4>
<p>This plugin does not currently play well with the Theme Customizer. In particular, it does not store the customizations for a theme that has been changed in the Customizer. You need to use the specific items in the “appearance” menu to configure the previewing theme.</p>
<p>This plugin does not allow for different <em>content</em> for each theme, so you cannot preview content changes using this plugin. This includes page-specific layout settings and layouts generated by plugins such as Visual Composer. Previewing theme template files can be modified, however, and those changes won’t affect the public theme.</p>
<p>Menu configuration: you can place existing menus into locations defined by the previewing theme and that will be remembered, but you cannot change the menu itself without affecting the normal site menus because they are the same content. If you need a different menu configuration for your previewing theme, create a new menu for that purpose. You will then be able to switch back and forth and the menu configuration will follow.</p>
<p>The plugin does not allow for different plugin configurations, plugin activated/deactivated status, and settings. WordPress Plugin configurations are the same for the main and preview themes.</p>
<p>If your new theme requires you to restructure the content or plugin configuration, it may be best to preview your new theme using a separate development site.</p>
<h4>Key Image Credit</h4>
<p>Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F044576-0032 / Engelbert Reineke / CC-BY-SA 3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons</p>


Theme Development Preview

Allows specific users to preview and configure a theme without affecting the current theme of the site.

ijmccallum

<p>This theme demo / theme switcher plugin will add a bar to the top of your WordPress site listing every theme you have installed.  It gives visitors the ability to switch between themes and try out their look on your live site.</p>
<p>After installation it requires no set up, it just works.</p>
<p>If you would like to see any extensions to this theme switcher please don’t hesitate to contact me from my website or post something in the support section.  And, if you like it – please leave something nice in the review section!  The more popular this becomes the more likely I’ll be to work on giving it lots more extra awesome.</p>
<h4>Why another theme switcher?</h4>
<p>I built this theme switcher primarily for myself.  There are a number of other theme switchers out there but they all require visitors to click on a drop down menu then select a theme to demo or have some other complication and none of them had the clean, simple, minimal way of switching that I was hoping for in a theme switcher.  So I built this theme switcher to give visitors an instant list of all the themes I hope to develop which they will be able to demo in a single click, also it doesn’t need any set up so it’s very easy!</p>
<p>So, I imagine most of the people interested in this theme switcher would be theme developers but if there are any people who are really indecisive about how they want their website to look, I guess this could provide them with an interesting solution to the website design problem.  Let me know if you can think of any other uses for a theme switcher!</p>


IJM Theme Switcher Bar

Add a theme switcher / theme demo bar to your site. Allows users to switch the theme they see on your site.

Theme Development Preview vs IJM Theme Switcher Bar