Hi, I keep on wondering how we are going to showcase the different blog alternative designs.

In the demo site (https://2025.wordpress.net/) I see some blog templates menu options. Will these be links to a different WordPress sites? In my opinion there should be as many blogs as blog alternatives we want to showcase.

As @carolinan explained me, templates may be customized from the Template – Design settings section, where the different alternative designs may be chosen. But these customizations are saved in the database, not in the theme folder, that’s why we need several blogs.

I would suggest to make a Playground demo for each blog: the personal, the news blog and the photo blog. It could be done in a Github repo where the different playground configurations and demo content could be stored. We could make really short video tutorials on how to customize templates and people would just have to click on the desired Playground demo link to see them in action.

Apart from this, the Playground demo could be used to showcase other things that need customizations like, for instance, synced patterns with overrides.

If you guys think is a good idea, I volunteer to help there. I have already done a Playground demo for my theme and it works great. I think I migrated the links of the xml demo content and did not have images to import.

In the case of TT5 there are a lot of images. I think in this case It would be good to keep the images in the xml demo content files pointing to the original demo site so that the Playground demo loads faster.

What do you think?