When migrating a live site to local you need to do a couple of thing. update the site url, you can do this in wp_options column (phpmyadmin) or in wp-config.php You need to find and replace all instances of the old url, you can use better search replace, its a great plugin for exactly that … Read more
I don’t have a ton of experience with manage wp but I am going to suggest an alternative for setting up a local site based on a live site. I would suggest using the plugin “All In One Migration” https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/ Install the plugin on the live, select “export” it will generate a file for you. … Read more
there are quite a few threads on here about this topic … just look at these examples: Database synchronization between dev/staging and production I would also recommend you read Mark Jaquith’s post on Local and Dev Tip’s.
Could be a few things causing it. Have you altered any core files or wp-config in anyway? Are the themes definitely valid, they have a style.css file with the required information filled in? I’d recommend setting up a completely fresh WordPress installation. Copy each theme in one at a time and make sure they show … Read more
WordPress do not work like Facebook or Twitter. Each WordPress installation is a separate application, it has its own database where users are stored, each installation is independent of one another. Your localhost installation of WordPres has no connection to the one on the server they are two entirely different entities. But you can copy … Read more
It is painful to clone the wordpress site sometimes when the site has a lot of plugins and custom code. I did it manually before. But I am using “Duplicator” plugin to handle this now. Please check: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
It looks like you have not imported the backup of database (sql file) to new database you have created in your localhost. Also after importing the database to local server you will need to replace the live site URL with new localhost URL at all instances in local database.
WordPress multisite – Bitnami
The reason that this is happening is that WordPress will always use the ‘siteurl’ whenever you navigate past the home page. AFAIK there is no way around this to make the pages accessible from multiple urls. If you only want the ssl on certain pages, there are plugins for that. Besides, if you’ve paid for … Read more
That’s not possible with the default xampp. Windows can’t work with the wildcard subdomains. The easiest way, that you switch to folder, directory structure. Alternative should help this answer with the customization of the vhost.