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

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# Theme Switcher Question

 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-question-1/)
 * I know I’ve read of a way of doing it, but can’t quite seem to find it now, but
   if I want to test a new design on a live blog using the Theme Switcher plugin(
   the Mr. Peer version via Alex King), what do I need to add to the end of my URI
   to load the theme.
    To be clear, I don’t wish to make the theme available to 
   the generally reading public by including the call, just myself. I tried adding?
   wptheme=themename, but that didn’t work. And I did choose the theme in the options
   panel for the plugin. Thanks.

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 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-question-1/#post-294947)
 * <?php if ($user_level == 10) { ?>
    <?php if (function_exists(“wp_theme_switcher”)){?
   > Themes <?php wp_theme_switcher(); ?> <?php } ?>
 * <?php } ?>
 *  Thread Starter [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-question-1/#post-294948)
 * No offense Beel, but you didn’t read my post. I know how to put the code into
   a template, which is **not** what I want. I know I’ve read that you can manually
   type in an address to load the site with another theme. That is what I’m looking
   for.
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-question-1/#post-294949)
 * No offense mikib, I did read your post but this is a more intelligent solution.
   It only shows the theme switcher when the admin is logged in and you don’t have
   to type the index.php?wptheme=Whatever+theme+you+are+testing each time (nor have
   to remember the full names). I use this on all the sites on which I work.
 *  Thread Starter [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-question-1/#post-294951)
 * So by your rationale, if I asked where to get a glass of water, you would give
   me a glass of orange juice and tell me it’s a more intelligent beverage?
 * The theme I’m currently using, there’s not a convienient location for a theme
   switcher call. Nor did I wish to hard code it into the new theme, as I have no
   desire to offer it in the future, and I’m looking at over all design, space usage.
   
   And for the record, I’m not getting anything to work with ?wptheme=new+theme.
 *  Thread Starter [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-question-1/#post-294954)
 * I switched to [Ryan’s theme switcher](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/ThemeSwitcher),
   and ?wptheme=theme+name worked.

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 * Last reply from: [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-switcher-question-1/#post-294954)
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