Vladimir Prelovac

<p>Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.</p>
<p>It happens completely transparent and they will not even notice you run a different theme for yourself.</p>
<p>Best part is you can even set the testing theme options (if it has them) in the Admin panel while you are testing the theme.</p>
<p>You can also preview any theme by adding “?theme=xxx” to your blog URL. For example http://www.myblog.com/?theme=Default</p>
<p>Plugin by Vladimir Prelovac. Managing more than one WordPress sites? Check out <a href="https://managewp.com" rel="nofollow ugc">ManageWP</a>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Some of the functions of Theme Test Drive plugin came from other plugins. So I can at least thank these people:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://boren.nu/" title="Ryan Boren" rel="nofollow ugc">Ryan Boren</a> for his <a href="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/ThemeSwitcher" title="Theme Switcher" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Switcher</a> plugin</li>
<li><a href="http://andufo.com" title="Andres Santos" rel="nofollow ugc">Andres Santos</a> for his <a href="http://andufo.com/proyectos/plugins/wp-websnapr"" title="wp-websnapr" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-websnapr</a> plugin</li>
<li><a href="http://www.deliciousdays.com/" title="Oliver" rel="nofollow ugc">Oliver</a> for his <a href="http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin" title="cforms II" rel="nofollow ugc">cforms II</a> plugin</li>
<li><a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/" title="Scott" rel="nofollow ugc">Scott</a> for his excellent readme.txt file</li>
<li><a href="http://www.websnapr.com" title="WebSnapr" rel="nofollow ugc">WebSnapr</a> folks for their service</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This file is part of Theme Test Drive.</p>
<p>Theme Test Drive is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>Theme Test Drive is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Theme Test Drive. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.</p>


Theme Test Drive

Safely test drive any theme as an administrator, while visitors use the default one.

Svetoslav Marinov

<p>This plugin allows you to copy a plugin and (TODO:) theme to a test/sandbox WordPress (local for now) installation.</p>
<p>This plugin is intended to be used by developers/designers who need a quick way to copy their plugins and themes to another (clean) copy of WordPress so they can test their work.</p>
<p>Note: In future versions of the plugin it will support activation and deactivation of the deployed plugin/theme. Currently, target plugin’s code is copied (from the current WordPress installation assuming that that’s the development environment) to a target WordPress test/sandbox site. The plugin must be activated on the target WordPress test/sandbox site.</p>
<h4>Why is the plugin needed?</h4>
<p>When developers and designs work they work on one instalation they may not necessarily catch some glitches. That’s why it is important to test the work on a fresh installation and also on a WordPress installation that has many plugins.</p>
<h4>Demo</h4>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Ditto WordPress Plugin : Test Drive Plugins and Themes in WordPress Sandbox" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vuRFblOKD8c?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>You need to go to <em>Ditto</em> > Deploy > Select the plugin that you want to deploy and then Parent Target Directory of a local WordPress installation. The plugin will be copied in the sub-folder of the Parent Target Directory.</p>
<p>In the next releases the plugin will be able to deploy a theme to a test location as well as to a remote location such as <a href="http://qsandbox.com/?utm_source=ditto&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=product" title="Free Test/Sandbox WordPress Site" rel="nofollow ugc">http://qsandbox.com</a></p>
<h4>Author</h4>
<p>Svetoslav Marinov (Slavi) | <a href="http://orbisius.com" title="Wordpress Plugin Development St. Catharines, Niagara" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Web Programming and Design by orbisius.com</a></p>


Ditto

This plugin allows you to copy a plugin and (TODO:) theme to a test/sandbox WordPress (local for now) installation.

Theme Test Drive vs Ditto