Want to test a new theme, before using it on your blog? Use Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin. Theme Test Drive plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator. When you enable this plugin, your visitors will see your current theme and you can continue testing your new theme. Your visitors will never know that you are running a different theme for yourself.

Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin is very useful, when you want to replace your old theme with a new one and you need to do some changes in your theme codes! After installation of this theme, you can choose the theme that you want to test from the ‘Presentation>Theme Test Drive’ tab. If you wish to stop using Theme Test Drive, press Disable button or deactivate the plugin.

How to install Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin?

• Download the Theme Test Drive plugin.
• Extract and upload it to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
• From your WordPress dashboard’s Plugins tab, activate the ‘Theme Test Drive’ plugin.
• Go to ‘Presentation’ on your dashboard and you will see a ‘Theme Test Drive’ tab. Select the theme you want to test drive and press Enable button.
• That’s it. Open your blog on a new window and you will see the test theme.

If you want to see whether it is working or not, log out from your WordPress admin panel and open your blog. You will see the current theme that you have enabled in your ‘Themes’ tab. Or, you can test it on a different browser also. Please note that, if you use WP-Cache plugin on your blog, you might need to disable it to use Theme Test Drive properly. I am using Theme Test Drive and it really works. So, during your next theme update, don’t forget to use Theme Test Drive.