How To Create A Local WordPress Install | WordCamp Dallas 2009

ByJohn P.

Speaker presenting on creating a local WordPress setup at WordCamp Dallas 2009. Matthew “Spamboy” McGarity shows us how to preform a local installation of wordpress. This allows a user to have an installation of wordpress on a USB drive, portable hard drive or just their local machine. With this local install, a user now has a complete WordPress development environment separate from his or her live WordPress site.

Thanks to Dave Curlee for filming and editing this, as well as incorporating the sign language interpreters into this video, and the other videos from WordCamp Dallas 2009. You can also follow Dave on Twitter or Spamboy on Twitter.

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7 Comments

  1. Yes it´s great. Tho the Video doesn´t show in Opera:(
    And also please keep in mind on march….3 or 4 or 5 not sure.. WordPress will release Version 3! That will be totally different I suppose a lot of plugins will not work anymore, and also a Local Install Version for USB Sticks must be re-done so its not worth it to do it now… That new Version 3 will support MU or what they´re called, where you can host multiple wordpress blogs on one domain like on wordpress.com

  3. Wow, i hadn’t thought about this approach in creating a development environment for WordPress (even though I’ve made sure we have both a dev and qa environment in addition to our production environment for my company’s website). Not really sure why I haven’t though lol. Having nuked more than one blog while upgrading my SEO blogs, I currently have a “testing” blog that I setup for new upgrades, new plugins, etc. But a local environment will sure be handy to take your development with me anywhere on the web without having to have any online access.

    Thanks for the link to the video!

  4. What a great idea! When I read the title, I was expecting a tutorial on how to create a localhost install using MAMP or WAMP or maybe even LAMP, but no – what I found was much more interesting! Thanks for this. I will be creating my USB WordPress stick soon!

  5. Having “nuked” my (good, main) blog on one occasion, I got to say this local install is a real great idea for testing. I had upgraded to the newest version (at the time) of wordpress and got the so called “clear screen of death” (you probably know all about this). In other words nothing when I typed in the url. I though my database was wiped out. It turned out to be a problem with my themes but being a beginner I had no idea how to debug. This reminds me to try these things out on a local linux machine.

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