testing new theme?

  • I am designing a new theme for my site – but don’t want to change the theme while the site is live. I am really not happy with the way the preview theme plugin works.

    Can I build the site on another domain I own – but point the wp-config.php information to my current mySQL database? Would that work?

    Or, in the alternative, if I create a new database and build the theme on this other domain – can it be easily switched to my live domain when I am ready to make the switch (so I don’t have to redo all the pages, posts, etc)

    Thanks!

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  • I have two WordPress blogs on the same domain, each with their own folder and database. I use one of these blogs for testing and working on my themes, and it is blocked with robots.txt and set to private with WordPress.

    This is what I would like to do. I’m wondering if there’s a way to install the content (posts and pages) of my blog to the test blog, so I can see the new theme with my actual content.

    (Could I just do a “Restore” via cpanel and “restore” my backup of wrdp1 to wrdp3?)

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