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Setting up a local dev environment - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: Workflows
Setting up a local dev environment
- [Instructor] Once you're ready to start doing development, it's best to do it on something other than your live site. We don't want to break a site that people are actively visiting. That's where a local development environment comes in. This is a hosting environment that runs only on your computer, meaning you're the only one who can access it. Here you can code and experiment with changes without worrying about breaking your live site. There are lots of options for setting up a local development environment and lots of courses in our library that cover those options, but I'm going to recommend Local by Flywheel. It's free, easy to use, and built specifically for WordPress. It also works on both Mac and Windows. To install Local by Flywheel, go to localbyflywheel.com, and click the Free Download button. Then, fill out the form. Once you fill out the form, click Get It Now. The installer will download. Then you can…
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