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Cookbook Theme

Draft, preview, and publish a theme change

Make theme edits in a draft and publish only after review.

Difficulty Intermediate
Time ~15 min

Prerequisites

The WPVibe plugin installed on the connected site.

The prompt
Use WPVibe to make this theme change safely: [describe the change].

Create or reuse a draft theme first. Inspect the relevant theme files before editing. Make the smallest changes needed, then give me a preview URL and summarize exactly what changed. Do not publish the draft theme until I explicitly approve it.
Already connected?

Skip pasting the full prompt. Drop this into your AI on a site that already has WPVibe:

Run the “Draft, preview, and publish a theme change” recipe from the WPVibe cookbook on my connected site.

Theme edits should happen in a draft. That keeps live visitors on the current theme while you and your AI iterate.

Publish only after reviewing the preview and the AI’s summary of changed files.

Outcome

A draft theme contains the requested change, with a preview URL and a clear publish checkpoint.