Creating A Developer Enviroment For Your WordPress Blog & Themes

As a Web Designer/Developer, creating a development enviroment locally is essential for testing new features, changing the layout of your design or just adding new content without any impack on your live website.

We have included some fantastic resources that will teach you how to create a developer enviroment for WordPress, plugins that will allow you to back up core files, template folders, wordpress sql tables and lite weight applications that allow you to create a server on your local workstation or server.

Choosing a web server package

Before you can start creating a developer enviroment, you must first install apache, mysql and phpmyadmin. Here is a selection of our favourite packages.

XAMPP via apachefriends.org

Xampp can be run on the following operating systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.

WampServer via wampserver.com

Wamp can be run on Windows.

Mamp & Mamp Pro via mamp.info

Mamp is designed to running on Mac OS X, with Snow Leopard 10.6 support now available.

Creating a Development Enviroment

How to Create a Theme Development Enviroment for a Live WordPress Site via inspectelement.com

Setup a Development Environment for Your WordPress Site via dountsis.com

Backing up your WordPress environment

Now you have created a development environment, now lets backup your live WordPress install.

WordPress Backup

DBC Backup – Creates daily database backups of your wordpress sql tables.

WP-DB-Backup – Backup your WordPress core files.

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