I know you want to check out some of those new themes on WordPress.com to see just how much they might make your blog shine, but you don’t want to activate any for fear your readers will get on your case about switching themes all the time.
… You have really obnoxious readers, don’t you? 😉
Well no need to worry any longer. You can now preview any WordPress.com theme from your blog’s Presentation admin screen just by clicking on the theme’s thumbnail. Your blog will load on the fly using the new theme without actually activating that theme for realies. Even better, you can click around most anywhere in your blog to see how your posts, pages, categories and everything else look.
Kinda fun, huh? Go nuts.
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ah ! now i can see into the future !
Excellent idea! Thanks!
very cool and useful. it helps me much 😀 good job!
i tried it and LOVED it – awesome functionality!
Prayers do get answered folks …
and this took so long because??
just kidding thx!
nice, i’ll try it 🙂
Excellent feature, waiting for a long time…
Thanks WordPress.
I have been checking other blog providers also, but I will say with full confidence that WordPress rocks. The themes are cool, friendly environment and easy navigation. I love WordPress.
very nice feature!!
Great improvement! Now some new themes to go with it? 🙂 (preferably three column themes if you don’t mind)
you guys make WP better and better
Love the new Theme Preview
Thanx
That’s a great and very handy feature. Thanks!
Nice addition! Keep it coming…
very nice thank you!!!
You think of EVERYthing! And even take into consideration our ‘obnoxious’ and devoted fans! THANK YOU!
cool improvement. i was longing for this long ago! thanks!
Ahh! Thank you so much. Now I can play around with my blog without fear and knowing that I will have to do so much just to get it back to the way it was if I don’t like the new theme.
Now, can you please add survey and poll widgets or options next???? Please, please, pretty please???? 🙂
A great idea – and well worth – checking out.
I think I do not lie when I say that I speak for all (at least morst) of us that this is exactly what we’ve been waiting for a very, very, very long time. A time that was soooo loooong that we all used this unique loooongness to go deep into our thoughts, deep into our minds, deep into everything in order to impress ourselves, to impress our surroundings, to impress the policeman who prefered to examine our bodies individually, unless the doorbell rang – because then we had to impress our neighbours, in short: then this was all over. Wasn’t it? On the other side of life our articles went quite fine not to say perfectly better – and it was this special not to say typical timeless relation-ship – between us and our spirit, of course – that introduced us with the unbeatable advantages of a certain sort of floating immortalities; sometimes looking like two dogs looking like merchants looking like foreign devils on silk-road. Once being digitalised life can go deep into our right and deep into our left ear at the very same time. And this, Ladies and Gentlemen from the WordPress-Family, is simply magic! Isn’t it?
The only thing I am pretty much asking myself is if you will work on these matters, subjects and/or topics, described as above, as well? And if so: when?
Cheers
always yours
Hamlet Hamster
Fuckin great baby!! FUCKIN AWESOME, STUNNING, love it!
Great addition 🙂
Have been after this for a while.
Great feature !
Cool! Cool! Cool!
you’re getting better all the time
MANY thanks; love you guys!!!
((hugs))
Amazing! I’ve already asked it a few weeks ago! Sometimes I really think you make our wishes come true (and you REALLY read our suggestions) 🙂
Thanks, guys!
GREAT STUFF! 🙂
More of these new features, please
Excellent! I love being able to do this–some features of my blog just don’t work well with certain themes, so I love being able to preview first!
Very nice! I didn’t even realize I had that theme-changing concern yet!
Very springy. Niiiiice. High five.
good one
This is another example of how you take the extra step for us — I already saved links for the thumbnails and had my own local page (works on my machine right here only) so I could somewhat preview if I felt like switching. Now I can try it “for reals” if I want! But my readers fail to annoy me, even though they try!!! ♥ 😀 ♥ WordPress!!! ON!!!
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Fantastic. I’ve been wanting this. Thanks.
Very nice
Oh wow, I am so totally in heaven right now! THANK YOU for making this feature available!
Impressive addition. Like it!
Just the tool that I missed, thank you!
Odlicno, samo tako naprej…
nice
Bien Gracias
Great Pixels!
Really nice!
Wow, Great! I’ve been waiting for this…
Great!!! I only wish I’d had this about 2 weeks ago! 😀
AWESOME!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! I’ll be sure to check this out !
thanx wordpress!
Awesome!! I like it.
Thanks 😀
I love WP!!! \o/
that’s what I need!
Ooh! Me likey! XD
Thanks, WordPress! Woot! 😀
Excellent. Thank you!
So fantastic. Thanks.
YES THANK YOU. I’ve always been thinking, why isn’t there a theme preview? everytime I try to change my skin. It’s gotten pretty irritating sometimes.
But yeah, I’ve been waiting and it’s finally here!
THANKS 😀
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Pretty cool =).
Well let us hope it is more stable and with less bloat than there was when it was tried on WP. com.
Go Blix
It rockz
Finally. This is what I’ve been waiting for. Now I can play around with the themes until I find one that satisfies my mood without fear of changing the current theme. Thanks wordpress 🙂
Awesome! I was just playing around with the themes this week (I want a small font theme with the small column on the right, so it loads on blackberries and cell phones quicker) and was wishing for such a feature!
Thanks!
Wow! This sure is something! Thanks.
Awesome. I’ve been waiting for this. 🙂
Groovy, next time I feel like playing with themes, no one has to know.
Thank You!!!
Nicey Nice! …although after trying it out, I think I’m gonna stay with my current theme by Jide 🙂
Damn guys…you keep “kickin ass´s”! that´s a great idea…!
I love it!!!
I have been wanting this for such a looooooooooong time!!!! Thank you thank you thank you 🙂 oh the little thing do make me happy!
*dance*
Thank you. This is very useful.
T H A N K Y O U!
I think I’ve whined about this missing feature time and time again.
Deeeeelicious!
Very helpful addition to WordPress-thanks.
I’m new to blogging and Word Press so it all is fantastic. I came across Word Press in a search for a nice blogging page to start out with. I like my new home, nice personality.. quirky.. fits me.
good job!
since themes are so unpredictable _ and one never knows what one is going to get – this one is indispensable!
thanks!
KOOL LOL
yesss! we love you.
wonderful
Perfect…
OMG!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
very cool
Thats a nifty feature!
tremendo!
i tried it. it rocks
Wow! This is the feature I have been waiting for a long time.
Thanks a lot!!! 🙂
really kooool
thanks!
Finally!!! Thank you! 😀
what i can say just “COOL”!!!
What I always wanted 😉
I have to say that everytime I come back – which isn’t often enough – you guys just “wow” me each time. I discovered the theme preview last night and LOVED IT!!!! What a great, innovative feature!!!!! You guys are the best. Thanks!
Awesome!!!
LOVE this feature!!! Great feature! Very appreciated. Extremely useful!
That’s really great!
How about some new themes?
Thank you so much,I have been changing my theme quite often that I didn’t even realised that my friends hated it.Having this prewiew thingy hepls me a lot.Thanks.
oh very cool love!
Great! I found just the right one.