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
I had same issue today on my new server. After a while i realize that zip/unzip is not active in my apache/php . When i recompile my apache with zip extension , problem solved.
The steps to take would be: 1 – Extract files 2 – Create DB and import 3 – modify wp-config.php for database name and user credentials if changed Do not modify db tables to change the site url as they are serialized and this will create more issues than you want to deal with. 4 … Read more
Unfortunately, when changing the URL of your site with WordPress, you also need to do a pretty big find/replace job in the database: this is because any links or images (and probably a number of other things too) added to posts have absolute (http://localhost:8888/wp-content/uploads/etc.) rather than relative links (/wp-content/uploads/etc.). Thus, all your images embedded in … Read more
1) Make sure the wp-config.php doesn’t have multisite reference settings such as define(“DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE”, “somesite.com” );. If it does, delete these settings 2) If you have updated siteurl and home settings in the *_options table to use local settings and it still doesn’t work, then 3) Delete all themes but a basic one (twentytwelve, twentythirteen,…) and … Read more