Thread: How to work on Wordpress theme and show something else instead?

How to work on Wordpress theme and show something else instead?

If i want to work with a theme and not show this to the Public? How do i "hide" the theme from everybody? Can i set the in the Setting in Wordpress to show another url? but i can still log in and work with the Theme behind the scene?

You can use a Maintenance plugin for that such as this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/ where you the admin can only see the whole working site while on others will display a maintenance mode notice.

Is is possible to have another theme showing at the mean time while working on the theme. I do not want to have the maintenance want to have something where people can subscribe to newsletter.

I have yet to see this kind of implementation or a plugin for this. What I am thinking is to modify the "maintenance plugin" to display your temporary content though it may require some work.

You might try this

Since WordPress already allows you to Preview a theme and you can see different pages under that theme while in the Preview mode WITHOUT ACTIVATING that theme you might try this plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...e-quickswitch/

of course, this means that you have to develop your style changes in a separate folder as a child theme that sits in the themes/ folder so that it is using ClassiPress functions while you are applying different styling.

This plugin simply makes it possible to switch to Preview Mode without having to go into "Appearances >> Themes" and clicking on the theme you want to test... as soon as you log in as the Admin with this plugin installed you will see a dropdown list available in the upper right hand corner where your Admin log in and log out is located.

I asked the woo guys http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-test-drive/