Sometimes it can be more convenient to work with WordPress on your local machine. Today we want to share with you an awesome WordPress product, from ServerPress, which can make installing WordPress locally a complete breeze. You can literally launch a new development install in a matter of seconds with a simple click of a button. It also fully! You might have used WampServer, XAMPP, or MAMP in the past; but you haven’t seen anything like this yet.
Check out our tutorial below on how to install WordPress locally with ServerPress. And yes, it works on both Windows and Macs. DesktopServer should be installed on every web developer’s system!
It has saved me countless hours in creating sites, testing and deploying client and personal work. Even better is the team behind the curtain. They take care of their customers and treat everyone from beginner to advanced equally. —. What is DesktopServer?
We have a here at Kinsta that allows for easy development and testing, but installing locally also has some advantages. Perhaps you are traveling and don’t have access to Wi-Fi, this then requires a local install to continue working. Also for manipulating files and local editing it can sometimes be faster, or if anything, there is usually less setup involved to get it up and running.
This is where DesktopServer can come in handy. Note: We don’t have any association with ServerPress, we simply really love their tool!
Join Morten Rand-Hendriksen for an in-depth discussion in this video Installing DesktopServer, part of Installing and Running WordPress: DesktopServer. Get Ahead in PHP: PHP 7 Features and Frameworks; See. In this course Morten-Rand Hendriksen looks at how DesktopServer allows you to easily install and manage WordPress on both Mac. DesktopServer is a local server package which runs on Mac and Windows. The installation, configuration, and site creation steps are almost identical for both platforms. This article will walk you through the steps to install DesktopServer on your computer. Top ↑ Installing DesktopServer # Installing DesktopServer 1. Downloading DesktopServer.
When you want to install WordPress locally you need to get a local AMP stack setup on your machine. In the case of WordPress, AMP stands for Apache, MySQL, PHP.
These are all software needed to mimic what a would be running for you on their web server. Usually people will install WampServer, XAMPP, or MAMP to get up and running. While these are great tools they still can be a little tedious, as they are designed to work with a variety of other software and tools.
DesktopServer was actually designed and optimized specifically for WordPress as a local AMP stack. DesktopServer ServerPress has both a free version and a premium version of DesktopServer which is $99.95 a year. The premium version includes a few advanced capabilities such as multisite support (hooray!), importing and exporting 3rd party backups, direct deploy to live site, a bypass login plugin, and more. So depending on your needs you can choose which version fits you best.
If you just need to do some quick testing, the free version works great. We are using the premium version below in our example.
We installed a fresh #WordPress development environment in 1 minute and 9 seconds with @DesktopServer! Click to Tweet How to Install WordPress Locally With DesktopServer Step 1 To install WordPress locally you will first need to from their website. There is both a Windows (XP, Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10) and a Mac version (OS X 10.6.x-10.11.x). They are also currently working on a Linux version. Note: We will be using the Windows version in our example.
Launch the installer and click on “Continue” to install with administrative privileges. Then accept the terms of service.
Apache and mySQL services Here is a quick rundown of the developer plugins you can use when you install WordPress locally. We highly recommend the bypass login and DS-CLI plugins. Airplane mode: Control loading of external files when developing locally. Bypass login: Allows developer bypass of login credentials via quick selection of any of the first 100 usernames in a combobox. Clean Import: Resets.htaccess, clears cache from third party hosts.
Debug and Trace: Forces WPDEBUG = true and enables cross-platform/language trace statements in PHP and JavaScript. Dreamweaver Support: Enables automatic Dreamweaver project file creation and WYSIWYG mode when working on template files and style.css. DS-CLI: This is an enhanced, cross-platform, command line interface for professional developers. Easily use CLI, Composer, Git, and PHPUnit. NodeJS and NPM are included to allow installation of GRUNT, Gulp, and other Node dependencies. DS-Deploy: Used to move a site from a local DesktopServer install to a live server.
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InnoDB Autoconvert: on Create, Copy, Move, and Import operations. Local Admin Color Bar: Changes the Admin bar color. Mailbox Viewer: Provides quick developer offline viewing of mail delivery services. Step 6 You will then need to select the “Create a new development website.” This is where it will install WordPress for you. Click “Next.”. Create new WordPress development site Step 7 You then have to pick your site name, which will also be the local address.
We are calling ours wp, so our development URL ends up being wp.dev on our local machine. DesktopServer allows you to actually create different blueprints which is awesome, it is almost like a pre-built template. In our case, we simply want a fresh install.
DesktopServer always has the latest and greatest version of WordPress as the default blueprint. This means you don’t have to worry about manually downloading it from the repository and unzipping it.
By default, the site root is located in your “My Documents” folder. This might be OK for you, however we changed ours to a folder we created on the root of our C: drive called “wordpress.” We won’t be going over the multisite network install in this tutorial, but we can tell you that they make it so easy to set one up. DesktopServer is by far one of the fastest ways to test a multisite network install. When you are ready, click on “Create.”.
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Edit DesktopServer To create additional WordPress sites or edit them simply launch the DesktopServer.exe again. You can stop and restart services, create new sites, edit them, export and import, etc. To access PHPMyAdmin you can click on the “Sites” button on the bottom left. Alternatively, you can enter localhost into your browser’s address bar.
This will bring up the administrator interface on the localhost. Here you can get the links to all of your WordPress sites, dashboard links, and also PHPMyAdmin links.
WordPress.sql file Symlinks DesktopServer also works great with (symbolic links). We had issues when trying to use mklinks in Windows with other 3rd party local staging tools, and with DesktopServer they simply worked right out of the box. Symlink allows you to create shortcuts and references to another file or folder in an alternate location. Summary As you see DesktopServer is pretty awesome. Once installed it is so fast to create and delete new development environments.
We decided to time ourselves from creation of a new site to the first login into the WordPress dashboard. It only took us 1 minute and 9 seconds to install an additional WP dev site and be inside working! Name Purpose Cookie Settings If you've set preferences (which cookies you accept and which you don't) we store your preferences here to make sure we don't load anything that you didn't agree to. WordPress Cookies WordPress sets a couple of cookies that track logged in users and store user preferences set in their WordPress user profile. These are set for members of the Kinsta website only - members of our staff.
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