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WordPress on localhost still points to the live site

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

Best way to move live site local

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

Connect to remote database using Localhost install

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

How to make other computer in local network see my theme

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.

HTTP request on localhost failing

To make wp_remote_get() work you need to check your php.ini file. In your php.ini file you need to set allow_url_include = On, which by default is set as allow_url_include = Off. Otherwise wp_remote_get() will not work. Reference: allow_url_include

Is it feasible to build and update a WordPress website offline?

It totally depends on the types of changes being made. If you’re modifying a theme or a plugin, depending on what the changes are, you can likely build them locally or on a remote dev server, then push them to production with ease. That works for a user or two, with more users you need … Read more

Local version of a WordPress site – SSL/HTTPS enforced?

WordPress keeps WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL in DB, this is set during initial installation and usually is the domain of your website, in your case it is a domain with https. Your visiting site via local domain, but WordPress redirects to https live domain, causing redirect loop which obviously fails. To fix this, change WP_HOME and … Read more

WP Asking for FTP Credentials with XAMPP Localhost

Congratulation Jon, welcome to the WordPress world! To fix the issue, just add the following line of code in your installed WordPress’s wp-config.php file. It’s a PHP constant declaration which tells the WordPress to avoid the FTP. That’s it. define( ‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’ ); For more info: https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_Upgrade_Constants

WordPress Subdomain MultiSite on localhost XAMPP on :8080 with IIS taking port 80

Ok, I gave up and moved to port 80, though i think what @Boultge suggest (the link) would have probably done it, but I read it too late. Here are the files tho that are letting me run XAMPP WordPress MU sub-domain Multisite on localhost as wp.dev with 20 additional WordPress individual sites. I shortened … Read more

Functions.php code that only runs on localhost?

This is the corect answer if ( $_SERVER[“SERVER_ADDR”] == ‘127.0.0.1’ ) { function livereload(){ ?> // mycode <?php } add_action(‘headway_body_close’, ‘livereload’); }

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