To check that the files have been successfully transferred, open a browser tab and navigate to “ You should see a database error similar to this: 3.
If you’re using a Mac and MAMP, follow the same instructions but adjust the local directory to suit. Once downloaded, place that root directory into the “htdocs” folder, which can be found in the location where you installed Xampp (by default, you can find it at “C:/xampp/”). There will also be a bunch of files in that directory, such as “index.php” and “wp-config.php”. If you are in any doubt as to what you are doing, look out for a directory containing folders such as “wp-admin” and “wp-content”. They will be contained in a root directory such as “yoursitename”. Once there, you want to download all files relating to your site. Now you need to grab your live site’s WordPress files and copy them over to your local server.Īccess your live site via FTP. If you are a Mac user, don’t fear – just complete steps one and two in this tutorial instead. In layman’s terms, you will be setting up a local server that your WordPress installation can sit on. You will be installing Xampp for Windows, and activating Apache and MySQL on your PC. If you haven’t, just head over to that tutorial and complete steps one and two. This first step assumes that you have gone through the process of creating a local WordPress site. Just follow the simple steps below and you will have an offline version of your WordPress site up and running in no time at all.
But on the face of it, copying an actual live site and moving it offline seems like a far more daunting task. If you have also been guilty of carrying out design tweaks on the fly, now is your opportunity to take your experiments offline.Īs you now know, creating a local WordPress site isn’t difficult at all – in fact, it only takes a few minutes. I’ve certainly been guilty of fiddling with my live blog and regretting the outcome. One of the key reasons for doing so would be the ability to test design changes without disrupting the live site. In Monday’s tutorial on creating a local WordPress site, I said that all WordPress users should have a local installation of WordPress on their PC. Update: This is an old article (from 2012), and as such it may contain information that is now obsolete.
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