How do I upload my WordPress code files from previous website onto local host WordPress website?
How do I upload my WordPress code files from previous website onto local host WordPress website?
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Running a Development Copy of WordPress?
You can open your database in a text editor and make a search and replace in the database. You have to change developmentsite.com for localsite.com. This method usually gives problems with theme options and widgets settings. To avoid these problems you can use the plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicator/. This has given me excellent results.
Wampserver: “Can’t select database”
I just ran into this problem. Then I realised I had EasyPHP running (I’ve been trying different web dev solutions). After stopping EasyPHP, I was able to continue with the wordpress installation.
Errors using WAMP for local hosting site and Dreamweaver to edit theme
In Dreamweaver, make sure that the Site settings for the remote site are set properly to your local folder. (Plus the standard “Don’t make code changes to a theme, as a theme update will overwrite your changes. Use a Child Theme.”)
How to create a child theme without losing changes made to parent
Actually, creating a Child Theme is well documented in the Codex along with lots of tutorials. As for changes you make to the Customization screen in the parent theme, you’ll need to export those and then import them into your Child Theme. The Child Theme doesn’t inherit Customizations (I think). But there are Customization export/import … Read more
Deprecated: mysql_connect()
Go to your WAMP settings and enable php_mysqli extension. You can do that within the toolbar menu on the right. Just right click on the WAMP icon and go to PHP extensions menu. PHP 5.5 will warn about the deprecated mysql driver functions. Turn off warnings by setting Debug to false in the wp-config.php, or … Read more
Domain Pointing to www.domain.com:8888
Moving a site is more than moving the database. And it is more than updating the wp-options table’s URLs (although that is important). You also have to change any references to the old URL in the database. I use a plugin called “Better Search and Replace” to update the URLs in the database. (There are … Read more
Merging separate works in wordpress
You can use the WordPress Exporter and Importer under the Tools menu in WordPress to have each person export their content to XML files and you can import each of the exported files. Know that the export/importer will merge the posts, but post_ids will get changed.
Setting up XAMPP and Sendmail to enable WordPress emails on localhost
I was able to resolve the issue. Inside of my php.ini file I commented out the wrong line. I was enabling mail through send disk and not sendmail.
Why I have this error when I try to install this old blog on my local webserver?
Why I obtain a white page when I import a backup of an old WP blog on my local web server? [duplicate]