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?

Answer 1

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.