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Set up a new WordPress site

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Set up a new WordPress site

- [Instructor] Let's set up our first WordPress site using Local by Flywheel. If there are no sites setup already, you get this nice big message on the front page saying, looks like you haven't created any sites yet, with a big green button saying create a new site. But once you've created a couple sites, this front page will show the available sites, and to create a new one, you go to the sidebar on the left-hand side, all the way to the bottom. There's a plus symbol, click that, and you go to the site builder. The first step in the site building process is to give the site a name. Now this name can be anything, it will become the URL to your site unless you specify otherwise. And I'm going to give my site the name mythoughts. Then, you should go into advanced options below here. Here you can set up the local site domain, so this'll be the URL that point at when you want to visit the site in your browser. By default, this will be mythoughts.local. When you're developing on a…

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