If you make a change on a page using WordPress itself (not using the “Appearance > Editor”), these changes will be stored in the mysql database. To move this over to your live wordpress, you will need to move your local database over to your live database.** If you only make a change directly under … Read more
You’re having this issue as your third party server doesn’t support the utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci collation type. You can either contact your host to correct this or convert the collation for all tables with utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci to utf8_general_ci
Remove WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL from your wp-config.php, and then check in the wp_options table for the values “siteurl” and “home” and change them to http://localhost/sitefolder. It must be an absolute URL. The WP Codex has more information about changing the site URL.
This is really a server question and not specific to WordPress. Be sure mod_rewrite is enabled in httpd.conf Apache on your version of OS X. (Google that with your version of OS X.) Restart Apache after making changes to httpd.conf. You may also need to add a blank .htaccess file in the /Users/yourusername/Sites folder so … Read more
Use Gulp + Gulp-Watch + BrowserSync. The goal is to run an extra process that monitors any changes in your files. When a change occurs the page is automatically reloaded including CSS injection / Scrolls / Browser clicks and all concurrently across multiple devices and browsers. Because it also generates an ip:port you can access … Read more
I use xip.io for this. What is xip.io? xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is 10.0.0.1. Using xip.io, 10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 www.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 mysite.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 foo.bar.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 Use a static IP address for DHCP: In … Read more
Why I have this error when I try to install this old blog on my local webserver?
You’ve set the “WordPress Address” and “Site Address” at wp-admin -> Settings -> General to localhost. localhost means “this computer”. That setting will work if you view the site on the same machine that the server runs on. If you view the site on any other machine the browser will look for files on “this … Read more
Since I found this script, I have used it for every single move I make from Localhost to Live or vice versa. It’s incredibly simple to use and has worked every time. https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB (Review: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ ) From their site: You must use a safe search and replace method that preserves the integrity of the serialized … Read more
You can achieve what you want using Local + WPEngine. Recently WPEngine made a deeper integration with Local. Local works great with windows and is very easy to set up a new WordPress local environment with it (only with a few clicks you will have a new WordPress site installed in your local enviroment, with … Read more