Comments on: How to Create a Theme Development Environment for a Live WordPress Site

By: Hashem E.Zahran

Hashem E.Zahran — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:53:38 +0000

I used to work when developing a theme on my localhost then upload it back to the life site, but this way is much easier and more effective, thanks for sharing

By: eko mobile shared

eko mobile shared — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:05:07 +0000

nice tutorial brother ..

i know its like a simple to develop wordpress themes , hihihi i will try its

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:29:09 +0000

How much trouble things like this could have saved me. Will try it this week

By: WP Developer

WP Developer — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:04:21 +0000

I have been finding it difficult to work with my clients project for long time & it was time consuming as I use to work in my local set-up , test it & then update it on the live production site.
But this article was good that saved my life with my projects

Good article , worth spending time to read it

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By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:32:41 +0000

When I tweak or build themes, I do it on a local SQL and Apache install on my Mac – which really speeds up development for me. (MAMP + OS X Sites)

This is a handy tutorial for doing quick edits on the live site, though. Thanks!

By: Jeremy Buff

Jeremy Buff — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:38:43 +0000

@Ben: Sometimes it’s hard to duplicate what you have on a live server. A good example would be WordPress theme settings that are NOT carried over when you install a new theme. Adjusting all of those variables again can take hours and hours. So long as you have backups of the current version of the live site, then you’re relatively safe.

By: Steve Cracknell

Steve Cracknell — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:48:12 +0000

I have made this work and it looks very useful. Thanks. But…

I am using WordPress 2.8.4, and at least as far as this version is concerned there are two little [but frustrating] errors in the code

in the functions.php code there is a missing } at the end

in header.php

ie ?wptheme= not ?theme=

As I am emphatically not a php developer, it took me a long while to work this out!

By: DantePasquale

DantePasquale — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:54:16 +0000

Hi, I’ll have to give this a try! One thing I also do is to have a webserver running on my notebook/laptop and keep a working copy of my blog on my laptop. I can make changes on my laptop and see the affects and they’ll be pretty accurate to what will happen when I upload the changes to my real server. I thought of this when I overheard a very expensive, local web designer, complaining to one of her clients that her client’s web host didn’t give her a test IP! I thought, why the heck would you need this when you’re running a really topped out MAC; just start your webserver and browse to localhost!