How to Upgrade WordPress Themes Without Anyone Knowing
One of the worst things about WordPress is that once you hack your blog, or your theme, or try a replacement plugin or theme you're doing it "live". In other words - everybody sees it. So if you would like to undertake a replacement theme you've got to modify them live while the visitor is getting to your posts and pages. I hate that. I've heard of men keeping a "test" version of WordPress installed in another folder just to check new themes and hacks - and that is not only more effort than I'm willing to try to, it's just a touch ridiculous.
I have a 1 internet site where the WordPress theme was causing too many problems, it had been old, and not worth hacking and fixing anymore. I even have too many internet sites and way an excessive amount of to try to to to make a replacement theme from scratch. So I went theme shopping, and within 10 minutes I found one that basically impressed me. you would be amazed at what you'll find just Googling "WordPress themes".
Next, I downloaded the free open source Theme Test Drive WordPress Plugin and installed and enabled it. This plugin allows you to line a topic for your entire blog that only the administrator will see. In other words, once you are logged into your WordPress dashboard because of the admin account, you'll test any post or page in your site under a topic and no-one is going to be the wiser. you'll hack the test theme pages and no-one on your site using your normal theme will see what you're testing. Of course, if you create changes to widgets or plugins, everyone will see them on both the general public and test themes. Once you enable the plugin all you've got to try to do is go do "Presentation -> Theme Test Drive" in your WP Dashboard and enable the theme you would like to check.
So in another browser window, I visited my dashboard, and one by one enabled and tested 6 new WordPress divi themes I had uploaded to the server. I found and settled on one that I actually liked. Luckily during this internet site, I exploit theme widgets, so everything updated beautifully because I didn't get to make any changes to the sidebar. Now, all I'm missing are any customizations I made to my current theme pages manually by adding code. So I checked out the code for my Main Index, Single Post, Archive, Comments, etc., to ascertain what I've added over time to form an inventory.
It seems I added quite a few things, but they're easy to place into the new template:
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Then I went through the pages in my new theme and added within the code to feature these functions one by one. I tested all as went because with "theme test drive" installed as admin I could view any page within the site with the new theme and see these changes as I went. After I added the code and uploaded the updated theme files to my site - I tested everything one last time. rummaging through the pages the sole another thing that I saw was within the sidebar of my new theme the category pages weren't listed, and in my current theme, they're. I did a touch shuffling of the sidebars, then I set the theme live! So instantly once I enabled the theme for the primary time, people saw a totally functional able to go blog with nothing broken! I did all the testing and updating behind the scenes on my WordPress blog without anybody knowing it, and once I put the new theme live - voila, there's was! Now that I even have this routine I'll do that whenever I update to a replacement WordPress theme, and I am so happy I not need to roll in the hay "live" where current visitors see!
I have a 1 internet site where the WordPress theme was causing too many problems, it had been old, and not worth hacking and fixing anymore. I even have too many internet sites and way an excessive amount of to try to to to make a replacement theme from scratch. So I went theme shopping, and within 10 minutes I found one that basically impressed me. you would be amazed at what you'll find just Googling "WordPress themes".
Next, I downloaded the free open source Theme Test Drive WordPress Plugin and installed and enabled it. This plugin allows you to line a topic for your entire blog that only the administrator will see. In other words, once you are logged into your WordPress dashboard because of the admin account, you'll test any post or page in your site under a topic and no-one is going to be the wiser. you'll hack the test theme pages and no-one on your site using your normal theme will see what you're testing. Of course, if you create changes to widgets or plugins, everyone will see them on both the general public and test themes. Once you enable the plugin all you've got to try to do is go do "Presentation -> Theme Test Drive" in your WP Dashboard and enable the theme you would like to check.
So in another browser window, I visited my dashboard, and one by one enabled and tested 6 new WordPress divi themes I had uploaded to the server. I found and settled on one that I actually liked. Luckily during this internet site, I exploit theme widgets, so everything updated beautifully because I didn't get to make any changes to the sidebar. Now, all I'm missing are any customizations I made to my current theme pages manually by adding code. So I checked out the code for my Main Index, Single Post, Archive, Comments, etc., to ascertain what I've added over time to form an inventory.
It seems I added quite a few things, but they're easy to place into the new template:
Print this page
Ratings
Threaded Comments
Post Views
Feedburner Flare
Breadcrumbs
AdSense
Then I went through the pages in my new theme and added within the code to feature these functions one by one. I tested all as went because with "theme test drive" installed as admin I could view any page within the site with the new theme and see these changes as I went. After I added the code and uploaded the updated theme files to my site - I tested everything one last time. rummaging through the pages the sole another thing that I saw was within the sidebar of my new theme the category pages weren't listed, and in my current theme, they're. I did a touch shuffling of the sidebars, then I set the theme live! So instantly once I enabled the theme for the primary time, people saw a totally functional able to go blog with nothing broken! I did all the testing and updating behind the scenes on my WordPress blog without anybody knowing it, and once I put the new theme live - voila, there's was! Now that I even have this routine I'll do that whenever I update to a replacement WordPress theme, and I am so happy I not need to roll in the hay "live" where current visitors see!
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