You’re confusing WordPress.com and WordPress.org. The .org is what is used for hosting your own WordPress website on your hosting provider. The .com is hosting your website using WordPress.com’s systems. There are some major differences between the two and it’s critical that you understand them. First and foremost hosting on .com has severe restrictions on … Read more
Out of the box Mamp runs different ports. Are you able to change it to port 80 or are you restricted to doing that for some reason? If you are able to, change the port to port 80. mamp->preferences->ports and change Apache port to 80 and then restart services UPDATE: For the wp-admin that will … Read more
You need to change the url of the copied website to not have a redirection Assuming your live url is https://oldurl.com and your sandbox url is http://mysandboxurl.com (replace the values with your actual urls) You can do so with either a define in your wp-config.php define( ‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://mysandboxurl.com’ ); define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://mysandboxurl.com’ ); Or changing … Read more
From personal experience sync between two different computers work best in one direction. For example your desktop is primary and notebook is precise mirror (yep, of whole directory tree preferably with tool that doesn’t touch unchanged files). Two way sync gets messy very fast for web stack. If you need to actively work with same … Read more
Local web server is a must, it’s pretty much generic web server stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP plus other bits) only running on your local computer. Deployment depends on how you manage your code: just resides on your computer – you will need to sync it to remote server in some way (FTP, SFTP, etc), any … Read more
See Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex and Backing Up Your Database « WordPress Codex and How to Move WordPress Blog to New Domain or Location » My Digital Life and possibly Giving WordPress Its Own Directory « WordPress Codex Deleted this added link as it advocates using a texteditor to change URLs in the dump; … Read more
There are some awesome resources online to help you with this process. Good for you for setting up a local development environment. I think you will find it to be an awesome change to your workflow, but be prepared for some trial and error in getting it right. First of all, there is an excellent … Read more
You may first need to modify the wp-config.php file for using the local database. Then use the Search and Replace plugin to replace all your live site links with the localhost links. Example: If your live site url is: http://mysite.com/, replace it with http://localhost/mysite/. This will also replace the urls for pages and posts like: … Read more
WordPress hardcodes the domain into many of its permalinks in the database. An easy solution is to download an SQL dump of the database on your host using phpMyAdmin or an SQL client, and then opening the SQL file in a (robust) text editor, assuming your database isn’t enormous. Then run a Find / Replace … Read more
The easiest thing by FAR is going to be to fire up MAMP again, create a MySQL dump of the database from phpmyadmin, and then import that into your new XAMP database through phpmyadmin. If you can’t do that, it might still be doable, but will be more work and confusing… I never got it … Read more