Title: Theme Test Drive
Author: Vladimir Prelovac
Published: <strong>12 februari 2008</strong>
Last modified: 23 november 2015

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Deze plugin **is niet getest met de laatste 3 grotere versies van WordPress**. Mogelijk
wordt het niet meer onderhouden of ondersteund. Ook kunnen er compatibiliteitsproblemen
ontstaan wanneer het wordt gebruikt met recentere versies van WordPress.

![](https://ps.w.org/theme-test-drive/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=1051551)

# Theme Test Drive

 Door [Vladimir Prelovac](https://profiles.wordpress.org/freediver/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/theme-test-drive.zip)

 * [Details](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/theme-test-drive/#description)
 * [Beoordelingen](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/theme-test-drive/#reviews)
 *  [Installatie](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/theme-test-drive/#installation)
 * [Ontwikkeling](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/theme-test-drive/#developers)

 [Ondersteuning](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/)

## Beschrijving

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.

It happens completely transparent and they will not even notice you run a different
theme for yourself.

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.

You can also preview any theme by adding “?theme=xxx” to your blog URL. For example
http://www.myblog.com/?theme=Default

Plugin by Vladimir Prelovac. Managing more than one WordPress sites? Check out [ManageWP](https://managewp.com).

### Credits

Some of the functions of Theme Test Drive plugin came from other plugins. So I can
at least thank these people:

 * [Ryan Boren](http://boren.nu/) for his [Theme Switcher](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/ThemeSwitcher)
   plugin
 * [Andres Santos](http://andufo.com) for his [wp-websnapr](http://andufo.com/proyectos/plugins/wp-websnapr")
   plugin
 * [Oliver](http://www.deliciousdays.com/) for his [cforms II](http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin)
   plugin
 * [Scott](http://www.plaintxt.org/) for his excellent readme.txt file
 * [WebSnapr](http://www.websnapr.com) folks for their service

Thanks.

### License

This file is part of Theme Test Drive.

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.

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Theme
Test Drive. If not, see [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).

## Schermafbeeldingen

 * [[
 * Admin panel for installing and previewing themes
 * [[

## Installatie

 1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
 2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
 3. Use the Options page to set the theme you want to test drive.

The selected theme will be visible only to blog administrator.

Other visitors of the blog will always see the default theme.

Note: if you use WP-Cache plugin, you might need to disable it (or setup to exclude
pages)

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
 2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
 3. Use the Options page to set the theme you want to test drive.

The selected theme will be visible only to blog administrator.

Other visitors of the blog will always see the default theme.

Note: if you use WP-Cache plugin, you might need to disable it (or setup to exclude
pages)

  How do I correctly use this plugin?

Go to Admin Panel, Design, Theme Test Drive. Select the theme you want to preview
and click enable.

Additionally you may click on any of the instant preview links, or wait for a preview
thumbnail to generate.

  Can I suggest an feature for the plugin?

Of course, visit [Theme Test Drive Home Page](http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/theme-test-drive#comments)

  I love your work, are you available for hire?

Yes I am, visit my [WordPress Services](http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/services)
page to find out more.

## Beoordelingen

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/50c101f4d9be877802d44713e653b7ee3306990c73a8daa836608bfa2bf2dcba?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Breaks my active theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-my-active-theme/)󠁿

 [angeljs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/angeljs/) 8 februari 2017

Although I badly need a plugin such as this, once I tried it, all of my settings
and widgets from my active theme were reverted and I had to put my site into maintenance
mode while I spent 20 minutes configuring everything again!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/db38539b5eac1a524044df7de37bc596486896c9b0d05ee252758a4b12f4cc20?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Useful plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useful-plugin-162/)󠁿

 [MC3](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mc3/) 14 oktober 2016

Seems to work OK with 4.6.1 but it would be good if the developer could conform 
and update “officially” as it were. I’m finding this plugin invaluable for sites
with pupblic-facing themes that are incompatible with the CiviCRM plugin. Civi is
a complex plugin and can easily break when faced with themes or other plugins that
aren’t well written in terms of enqueuing scripts only when essential. Much of the
complexity in Civi is on admin pages, and this plugin solves the problem by auto-
switching the theme to something clean for admin users.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1cdb5d6b7199eb0bca23a8233ffea96598bb124e41411a7c1d1d6b641731288c?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[works fine](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-fine-510/)󠁿

 [carlostalaga](https://profiles.wordpress.org/catonfire/) 3 september 2016

nice and simple solution to test a theme. be careful with widgets and custom settings
for other plugins. thanks

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5bd0408b78995ff3ccc2982b43ce198357fac86d69003cd3e2762c20753b08f1?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn't work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-1245/)󠁿

 [dumascharlotte](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dumascharlotte/) 3 september 2016
1 reactie

Same experience as walkerdesigngroup: doesn’t work! 🙁 I feel so frustrated…

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7fba2147b60e34a08928abded8ef93e40970b88a56de59ad9347016a0e11f683?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great tool to test themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-tool-to-test-themes/)󠁿

 [jbeinstein](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jbeinstein/) 3 september 2016

A great tool to preview new themes to see if it’s worth changing. Especially for
someone that’s not very technical. A+

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/40d3265881e31111d0c40c83ba6b59bae901fe440737336e8a75c3d61c91dae2?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great for thgeme developers](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-for-thgeme-developers/)󠁿

 [neotrope](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neotrope/) 3 september 2016 1 reactie

Great tool for theme developers to test theme dev on live site, without impacting
the live site. Great for test drives, compatiblity checking, and also side by side
eval of themes you’re building when you have one version at an alpha stage and want
to test beta changes, then switch back for next dev stage. Note for newbies and 
the clueless — this plugin does *not* allow you to build out an entire site, set
all options, menus, widgets, and then switch site live with the test version. This
is intended to TEST a theme you’re not going to switch on from the TEST phase. WP
does not support keeping widgets intact when changing themes, natively since the
functions file changes which specifies which widgets are being instantiated (duh).
So, it works wonderfully for its intended purposes. it does NOT make coffee, however,
damn it ! 🙂

 [ Lees alle 51 beoordelingen ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/reviews/)

## Bijdragers & ontwikkelaars

“Theme Test Drive” is open source software. De volgende personen hebben bijgedragen
aan deze plugin.

Bijdragers

 *   [ Vladimir Prelovac ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/freediver/)

[Vertaal “Theme Test Drive” in je eigen taal.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/theme-test-drive)

### Interesse in ontwikkeling?

[Bekijk de code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/theme-test-drive/), 
haal de [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/theme-test-drive/) op,
of abonneer je op het [ontwikkellog](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/theme-test-drive/)
via [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/theme-test-drive/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.9.1

 * Fixed security issue

#### 2.9

 * WordPress 4.1 refresh and compatibility

#### 2.8.4

 * Removed the versionc hecking code
 * WP 3.5.1 compatible

#### 2.8.3

 * Update for compatibility to WordPress 3.4.1 by replacing deprecated calls (thanks
   Lance Willett!)
 * Use new WP_Theme API for loading themes and getting theme information
 * Fix PHP warnings

#### 2.8.2

 * WordPress 3.2 compatibility

#### 2.8.1

 * Reverted the admin capabilities so the user can see the options panel for theme
   being previewed

#### 2.8

 * Added a patch for theme and stylesheet filters that sometimes caused problems
   with user capabilities

#### 2.7.4

 * WordPress 2.8 compatibilty

#### 2.7.3

 * Fixed the problem with access level update

#### 2.7

 * WP 2.7 cleanup and security update

#### 2.5

 * Easy theme installation: Install your themes using a built in installer
 * Ability to use folder name as well as “?theme=xxx” paramter for instant preview(
   thanks Michael Stewart!)

## Meta

 *  Versie **2.9.1**
 *  Laatst geüpdatet **8 jaar geleden**
 *  Actieve installaties **8.000+**
 *  WordPress versie ** 2.3 of nieuwer **
 *  Getest t/m **4.3.34**
 *  Taal
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-test-drive/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[test](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/test/)
   [theme](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/theme/)[themes](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/themes/)
 *  [Geavanceerde weergave](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/theme-test-drive/advanced/)

## Waarderingen

 3.9 van 5 sterren.

 *  [  31 5 sterren beoordelingen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  5 4 sterren beoordelingen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  2 3 sterren beoordelingen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2 sterren beoordelingen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  12 1 sterren beoordelingen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/reviews/#new-post)

[Bekijk alle beoordelingen](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/reviews/)

## Bijdragers

 *   [ Vladimir Prelovac ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/freediver/)

## Ondersteuning

Iets te melden? Hulp nodig?

 [Het supportforum bekijken](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-test-drive/)

## Doneren

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