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

Relative or dynamic site url possible?

I usually just avoid the issue entirely every time I create a new wordpress site: define(‘WP_HOME’, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”); define(‘WP_SITEURL’, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”); will cause wordpress to use root-relative urls for everything. Makes site migrations to other domains far easier. Ofc, if you access your site using a folder (eg. “http://<domain>/blog“) you could change them to: define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘/blog/’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’, … Read more