Self hosted theme demos

[NWTD]

A while ago, I purchased a membership to StudioPress that grants me access to all the themes. I am offering these themes to my hosting clients (not for resell). Is it possible to host a demo of each of the themes (like on StudioPress) on my site?

[nutsandbolts]

You could do that, provided you have sufficient resources to hold that many WordPress installations. The easiest way would be to create a subdomain for each child theme and install WP along with Genesis and that theme. You could import the demo content included in each child theme's file.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[NWTD]

My choice of words, "host", was not to imply that I wanted to host individual subsites for each theme on my network; unless, of course, that's how StudioPress has accomplished this. I was hoping for the same interaction from the SP theme shop, with the ability to open/close theme demos in a lightbox style and the ability to demo a mobile version.

[nutsandbolts]

You could use a lightbox plugin with the direct links to the theme demos - http://demo.studiopress.com/THEME-NAME/

So basically you could have screenshot thumbnails like SP does, and clicking on them would bring up the demo in a lightbox or iframe.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

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