testing out theme using existing database

  • I am very new to WordPress. We have our existing live WP site working great. We need it to continue working as is. But we want to test out a different theme on a different site and just point it to our live WP database so we can see how how the new theme will work with the existing data. Can I do this without messing up the existing database? When the new site reads it, does it just read or does it do writing as well?

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  • I wouldn’t do that because I believe the active template/widgets and so on are stored in the database. You’d essentially be changing the theme on both sites.

    I’d suggest making a copy of the database as part of development/test environment and use it instead.

    to test out a different theme on a different site and just point it to our live WP database…
    Can I do this without messing up the existing database?

    No.

    When the new site reads it, does it just read or does it do writing as well?

    If it could connect at all it would do a little of both, but it will actually only bounce off (404) because the database will not recognize the URL.

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