Installing WordPress locally, through the localhost, is the best choice if you are developing a new site or need to make major changes to your website.
#Install local by flywheel how to#
Installing xampp is as simple as installing Local, but creating new WordPress sites is super easy with Local, you can create a new test site in less than 2 minutes with just 3 clicks.īefore we see how to install WordPress locally on a web server that resides on our computer, without the need to upload files to a remote server.īut first let’s see what are the advantages of installing WordPress locally. You’ll find many guides that explain how to instal WordPress locally with xampp, personally I think the method described in this article is the easiest ever. If, instead, you want to run the installation on a web space take a look at the article on how to install WordPress. If you are looking for a solution that allows you to use not only WordPress but any script in PHP, Perl or Phyton check the article I wrote about MAMP. For WordPress to work properly we need a web server that can run PHP files, as well as a MySQL database.Ī WordPress hosting service provides the MySQL database needed to store the data needed by WordPress and a server (in our case Apache) to run the PHP files. The browser on our computer is capable of opening and displaying HTML, CSS and JavaScript files.
#Install local by flywheel code#
If you want to delve into the topic you can take a look at our article to better understand what is WordPress and how it works.Įvery time a visitor visits a page of our website the server runs the WordPress php files, retrieves the information it needs from the MySQL database and creates the HTML code of the web pages of your site to send them to the visitor’s browser.Īll of these operations are performed for every page every time a user visits a page on your website, unless we have performed a WordPress optimization and are using a caching plugin. WordPress is the most widely used CMS (Content Management System) for creating websites. Making your customers see a site locally.
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