Posts Tagged "development"

How to create a single wp-config file for local and remote WordPress development

»Posted by on Jan 28, 2010 in Blog | 3 comments

If you are developing WordPress sites, themes or plugins, you probably know that setting up a local development environment can speed things up immensely. The easiest way is to use XAMPP or MAMP. I prefer XAMPP by the way as it is available on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.  Installing XAMPP gets you most of the way to headache free WordPress development, the rest is setting up your local server/virtual servers so that it as closely mirrors your remote set-up as possible. However, some settings like blog address are held in the database which makes mirroring local development and remote production servers a little tricky. If you just backed up the database on the remote set-up and imported it to your local XAMPP server through phpMyAdmin then WordPress will still...

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