Title: Theme Switcher Plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Theme Switcher Plugin

 *  [c0y0te](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c0y0te/)
 * (@c0y0te)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’ve installed the theme switcher plugin to help switch between themes on my 
   site, using the basic code so that it does a drop down:-
    - <h2><?php _e(‘Switch Theme’); ?></h2>
       <?php get_theme_switcher(‘form’); ?
      >
    - Problem is – the box displays perfectly, the drop down works and allows selction
      of a theme, but then the theme doesn’t display, it just remains on the current
      theme. I’ve checked the options within WP1.5 and it sees all themes, and it
      sees the plugin as ACTIVE, so I’m stumped.
    - Any suggestions? What have I done wrong? Where should I look? Thanks in advance
      for any help.

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164981)
 * Well, I don’t “know” either…. but I never did anything at all except upload the
   file and activate the plugin, then put the relevant code where I wanted the dropdown
   to show.
 * I’ve got – umm…. 7? – installs with it working. Never had a problem.
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164982)
 * 7 installs with it working leads me to believe it is something specific with 
   the location of this one. I assume the others were not on the same server.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164983)
 * Um. 3 different servers. Well, 4 if you include my localhost install.
 * Tracy? Are you on an IIS server?
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164984)
 * Sorry, v, I made the assumption your post was from tracy… oops.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164985)
 * I was wondering if Tracy’s install was on an IIS server, since the first few 
   posts here concerned that, and things ARE different with IIS….
 *  [tracyberna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyberna/)
 * (@tracyberna)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164986)
 * Vkaryl, my webhost says my account is hosted on a UNIX platform, and the webserver
   is Apache version 1.3.33.
 * Now that we know this, what do we do?
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164987)
 * Well, that does help a little from my perspective since while I don’t know much
   about php, apache etc. I do know more than about IIS (about which I know LESS
   than nothing….)
 * The reason the themeswitcher “just showed up” when you activated it is because
   Jennifer/geeksmakemehot included the “if” statement in the theme’s sidebar. If
   you have the plugin activated the switcher will automatically show up.
 * This is going to sound really weird probably. First, go to your sidebar.php file,
   and take the word “dropdown” out of the themeswitcher call. Be sure to leave 
   the parentheses and the single quotes, just take out the word itself. [Um. Before
   you do that, though, double check to make sure you have a themeswitcher call 
   in the OTHER themes – because once you get it working, if you get to a theme 
   that DOESN’T have the call inserted, it’s a PITA to get back….]
 * What that will do is show a text list of themes. Once you refresh your page, 
   click on one of the theme names displayed and see if it works as a text link.
   Then let us know.
 *  [tracyberna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyberna/)
 * (@tracyberna)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164988)
 * _The reason the themeswitcher “just showed up” when you activated it is because
   Jennifer/geeksmakemehot included the “if” statement in the theme’s sidebar._
 * Actually, I couldn’t swear to it, but I don’t _think_ that’s why. I haven’t been
   using Jennifer’s theme through most of this – I had it on “Orange Sky” until 
   a day or two ago. I think activating the Theme Switcher put all the code relating
   to it into the Sidebar Template, regardless of theme. But that’s kinda beside
   the point…
 * Anyway, I removed “dropdown”, exactly as instructed, and it didn’t fix it.
 * Another theory, maybe someone can confirm/shoot down: when I first started with
   WP, I had trouble with that bug where you sign in, and it just keeps relooping
   you back to the sign in page. The solution was to acknowledge that I was on a
   secure server, and change some code in the database to say to say “https” instead
   of “http”. Do you think the secure server might be messing me up again? ‘Cause
   it’s kind of a second case of the cookie not setting, yes? If so, what would 
   I change and where?
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164989)
 * I don’t know anything about how it works on a secure server. Maybe someone else
   will have some idea about that. If that’s the case, you might have to contact
   Ryan Boren, the plugin author, about what to change and where.
 *  [tracyberna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyberna/)
 * (@tracyberna)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164990)
 * _you might have to contact Ryan Boren_
 * Yeah, I looked around his site for an addy, but apparently homeboy’s REEEEAL 
   reluctant to give one out to us programming-clueless goombahs using his plugin.
   😉 Probably afraid we’ll bug him till he has no more time to do anything else
   but answer questions. I may go look again, though, and see if I can’t ruthlessly
   bug him anyway.
 * Thanks for all your time, Vkaryl! 🙂
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-plugin/page/2/#post-164991)
 * Good luck, Tracy. I wish I could have been of more assistance!

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