How can I develop a new theme in WordPress without disrupting the current site

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I am working on updating our current website and would like to build a new theme without disturbing the current site. How should I go about doing this? Can I just add the theme and then not make it active until I'm ready?

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There are a couple of options.

One: there are plugins that will let just certain logged-in users see the site in a different theme. You could use one of these and enable the new theme for yourself until you're ready to make the switch.

Two: copy your site onto a staging site and experiment there. The biggest potential downside is that if the theme has any settings, you'll have to go make those on the live site when you're ready to make the switch. However, if your theme has a lot of settings, this may be your only option - you'll have to look at the plugins and see whether they allow you to configure multiple themes.

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You can use the pre_option_stylesheet filter to dynamically change the stylesheet. In the following example, I show the default stylesheet selected on WordPress admin to regular users and a different theme with the slug my-new-theme to users with the activate_plugins capability.

/*
 * Plugin Name: WPSE Theme Switch Example
 * Description: Show `my-new-theme` to users with the `activate_plugins` capability.
 * Required PHP: 5.4
 */
namespace StackExchangeWordPress;

class stylesheet 
 protected $theme = 'my-new-theme';

 public function get_theme( $theme ) 
 return $this->show_new_theme() ? $this->theme : $theme;
 

 protected function show_new_theme() 
 return ! is_admin() && current_user_can( 'activate_plugins' );
 

add_filter( 'pre_option_stylesheet', [ new stylesheet(), 'get_theme' ] );

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There are a couple of options.

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/*
 * Plugin Name: WPSE Theme Switch Example
 * Description: Show `my-new-theme` to users with the `activate_plugins` capability.
 * Required PHP: 5.4
 */
namespace StackExchangeWordPress;

class stylesheet 
 protected $theme = 'my-new-theme';

 public function get_theme( $theme ) 
 return $this->show_new_theme() ? $this->theme : $theme;
 

 protected function show_new_theme() 
 return ! is_admin() && current_user_can( 'activate_plugins' );
 

add_filter( 'pre_option_stylesheet', [ new stylesheet(), 'get_theme' ] );

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/*
 * Plugin Name: WPSE Theme Switch Example
 * Description: Show `my-new-theme` to users with the `activate_plugins` capability.
 * Required PHP: 5.4
 */
namespace StackExchangeWordPress;

class stylesheet 
 protected $theme = 'my-new-theme';

 public function get_theme( $theme ) 
 return $this->show_new_theme() ? $this->theme : $theme;
 

 protected function show_new_theme() 
 return ! is_admin() && current_user_can( 'activate_plugins' );
 

add_filter( 'pre_option_stylesheet', [ new stylesheet(), 'get_theme' ] );

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/*
 * Plugin Name: WPSE Theme Switch Example
 * Description: Show `my-new-theme` to users with the `activate_plugins` capability.
 * Required PHP: 5.4
 */
namespace StackExchangeWordPress;

class stylesheet 
 protected $theme = 'my-new-theme';

 public function get_theme( $theme ) 
 return $this->show_new_theme() ? $this->theme : $theme;
 

 protected function show_new_theme() 
 return ! is_admin() && current_user_can( 'activate_plugins' );
 

add_filter( 'pre_option_stylesheet', [ new stylesheet(), 'get_theme' ] );

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/*
 * Plugin Name: WPSE Theme Switch Example
 * Description: Show `my-new-theme` to users with the `activate_plugins` capability.
 * Required PHP: 5.4
 */
namespace StackExchangeWordPress;

class stylesheet 
 protected $theme = 'my-new-theme';

 public function get_theme( $theme ) 
 return $this->show_new_theme() ? $this->theme : $theme;
 

 protected function show_new_theme() 
 return ! is_admin() && current_user_can( 'activate_plugins' );
 

add_filter( 'pre_option_stylesheet', [ new stylesheet(), 'get_theme' ] );

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