WordPress Theme Previews

Setting up a demo WordPress installation in order to provide a Live Preview of your new theme is a mind-numbingly dull task. Thankfully, a few developers have realised this and released files to help speed up this process. These two files are a must-have for ThemeForest WordPress developers.

Sample WordPress Content

The guys at WP-Candy have an XML file to import straight into your new WordPress install, creating:

• Multiple posts with different elements in each
• 12 Posts to force pagination
• Blockquotes, lists – ordered and unordered – and floating images
• Comments on a few of the posts
• Parent, child, and grandchild categories and pages
• Tags
• Multiple months for the archives

Simply upload the file into WordPress via ‘Manage -> Import’; and you have sample content to display how all elements of your theme appear.

Read More: “Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress Content”

Theme Switcher Plugin

This plugin allows you use multiple themes on one install of WordPress. Once installed, you can include a drop-down menu on each theme for quick switching, or you can link directly to the theme, by adding the following to the end of the URL:

?wptheme=THEMENAME

Perfect for providing a Live Preview for your ThemeForest item! Thanks to Simnor on the Forums for telling us about this!

Read More: “ThemeSwitcher – WordPress Plugin”

I hope this post was of help to some of you. I just wish I knew about these earlier, before I spent hours creating dummy installs!