Title: Live Theme Preview
Author: Mike Martel
Published: <strong>November 2, 2012</strong>
Last modified: February 20, 2013

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/live-theme-preview_b16fb8.svg)

# Live Theme Preview

 By [Mike Martel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mike_cowobo/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/live-theme-preview.1.0.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/live-theme-preview/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/live-theme-preview/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/live-theme-preview/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/live-theme-preview/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/live-theme-preview/)

## Description

With Live Theme Preview, you can select a theme in an interface based on the Theme
Customizer in WordPress. A sidebar shows all installed themes (or, with multisite–
allowed themes), to preview, edit or activate.

See the screenshot, or install and try it for yourself.

_If you want to help develop this plugin, visit the [GitHub repo](https://github.com/mgmartel/WP-Live-Theme-Preview)._

#### Features

 * Seamless integration with Theme Customizer
 * Supports child themes
 * Multisite compatible
 * Relocates WP ‘Themes’ interface to “Manage Themes” under Appearance
 * Customize before activate, back button redirects to Live Theme Preview

**Live Theme Preview is part of [Live Admin](http://trenvo.com) and works great 
with [Live Dashboard](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-dashboard/), [WP Getting Started](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-getting-started/)
and [Live Editor](https://github.com/mgmartel/WP-Live-Editor)**

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Live Theme Preview

## Installation

The usual way. Plugin requires no configuration (yet). To use it, simply go to Appearance-
>Themes.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Live Theme Preview” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Mike Martel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mike_cowobo/)

[Translate “Live Theme Preview” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/live-theme-preview)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/live-theme-preview/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/live-theme-preview/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/live-theme-preview/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/live-theme-preview/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.2

 * PHP5.4 Compatibility

#### 1.0

 * Update to latest [Live Admin](https://github.com/mgmartel/WP-Live-Admin)

#### 0.9

 * BUGFIX: Live Theme Preview wasn’t properly loaded

#### 0.8

 * Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/live-theme-preview/)
 * Tags
 * [customizer](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/customizer/)[live](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/live/)
   [preview](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/preview/)[themes](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/themes/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/live-theme-preview/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/live-theme-preview/reviews/?filter=5)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Mike Martel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mike_cowobo/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/live-theme-preview/)

## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://trenvo.com)