Development, Multisite Development, Tutorials

Set Up A Killer WordPress Test Environment Locally using MAMP on OSX

by Harley Alexander March 12^th, 2013 15 Responses

For the majority of articles I write, I begin with a fresh install of WordPress. It’s the best way to ensure control when you have people following along and doing exactly what you do.

It would be very tedious if for each article I wrote, I had to create an entirely new WordPress instance. That would require a fresh database, the most recent version of WordPress, a new user, etc.

The answer, of course, is WordPress Multisite. (Btw, check out our Multisite guides here.)

Tutorials

WordPress for Mac: How to Install Locally with MAMP [Tutorial]

by Tom Ewer July 31^st, 2012 15 Responses

Any WordPress developer should have a local version of WordPress installed on their PC or Mac. Even if you are only a bit of a tinkerer, an offline environment is a much better place to do your work.

Why? Many reasons, including:

It’s great for testing
You can have as many installations as you like
It is a lot faster
You can experiment with design/functionality changes at no risk
There is no danger of the site being inadvertently indexed by Google

WordPress for Mac: How to Install Locally with MAMP [Tutorial]