Let use diferent themes installed for each user role actived.
As of April 2026, Development Theme is a WordPress admin plugin with 30 active installations and a 3.2/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Loginizer.
Let use diferent themes installed for each user role actived.
You can set which theme will be use visible for “administrator” role while logged, or for “editor”, or any other role created. Also, you can set which theme will be visible for rest of visitors, that´s rest of people that are not wp users, just visitors.
It´s very easy, just install it, go to Development Themes Options page, choose your roles/themes and save.
You can use this plugin for things like:
Put your site under maintenance using some other alternative theme for your site, but let the administrator or any other user role be able to see and work a new theme, let´s say an update.
You can test some new theme while rest of visitors still see the current one.
In fact, you can show a theme for any…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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