Work with one theme while another is active

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  dalefye · Member · Nov 15, 2015 at 8:00 pm

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  I’m just getting started with WordPress and although I have designed about half a dozen pages, a menu, and a blog, I would like to make this theme active while still being able to test out some other themes.

  Is there a way to do this?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Nov 16, 2015 at 3:53 am

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  Hi,

  You may only have one theme activated on a site at any point in time. To test various themes, you may switch from one to another on a single site, or create as many test websites as you like. You could even create a different website for every theme.

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  dalefye · Member · Nov 16, 2015 at 10:29 am

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  musicdoc1,

  That makes sense. Basically, my question was how do I create a “test website”?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Nov 16, 2015 at 5:43 pm

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  dalefye – are you actually hosted on WordPress.com? I don’t see any sites at all on this account.

  Or are you running the WordPress software on your own hosting?

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  dalefye · Member · Nov 16, 2015 at 5:54 pm

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  running it on my own hosting account.

  It is currently displayed as:

  mydomain/wordpress/…

  But I’ve been told that when I want to go live, I can change that in the General Settings section so that the Site Address does not include the /Wordpress/ in the path. Is that correct?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Nov 16, 2015 at 5:59 pm

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  These forums are for folks hosted here on WordPress.com.

  The support forum for self-hosted sites like yours are over at WordPress.org:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  You’ll need a free WordPress.org account to post – if you don’t already have one, you can register here:

  https://wordpress.org/support/register.php

  Good luck!