WordPress Child Theme for specific roles

Question

I'd like to restrict a child theme to only being visible to me, the admin, for development purposes. Then I can make changes, upload and view them live and on the site without other people seeing those unfinished changes. Once I'm done, I take the affected files and move them to the Parent Theme's folder to make the changes visible to everyone.

Is this possible with some kind of script through functions.php?

Billy Jacobson Billy Jacobson · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-28T05:32:28

You would probably want to create a development environment on a subdomain, but if you are restricted by this, you will want to enqueue the style only when you are logged in.

In style.css (change twenty fourteen to match your current theme)

/*
Theme Name:   Twenty Fourteen Child
Theme URI:    http://example.com/twenty-fourteen-child/
Template:     twentyfourteen
*/

@import url("../twentyfourteen/style.css");

In header.php

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
    if ( $user_id = YOUR_USER_ID ) {
        wp_register_style('YOUR_STYLE', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . 'PATH.css');
        wp_enqueue_style('YOUR_STYLE');
    }
}

This should be the general idea of what you want to do. Comment if you have any questions.

WordPress Child Theme for specific roles

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