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
I have found the answer… well to my situation anyway. It was something related to multisite. Removing the following from wp-config.php got it to work for me. Removed define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); define( ‘MULTISITE’, true ); define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false ); $base=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”; define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘www.mywebsite.co.uk’ ); define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” ); define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 ); define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 ); … Read more
Why didn’t you try to copy your live website manually. It’s not as easy as using a plugin but much more error proof. You will need to follow these steps. Make a dump of MYSQL database on server. mysqldump -u username -p -h localhost dbname > domain.sql Create a archive of your WordPress website on … Read more
I think s_ha_dum is in the right track, but I think he got it backwards. You want to: develop/design locally connect to the REMOTE database and work with his content? You need a remote (staging) installation of WordPress, where the client can create/enter his content. You need your local WordPress site (localhost) to point to … Read more
Go to Admin Panel > Settings > General and replace localhost with your ip-address for WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) and see if it works. Also don’t forget to put your WAMP server online.