michaeloglesby.com » PHP http://www.michaeloglesby.com Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:34:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Setting up WordPress locally on your Mac http://www.michaeloglesby.com/2008/05/30/setting-up-wordpress-locally-on-your-mac/ http://www.michaeloglesby.com/2008/05/30/setting-up-wordpress-locally-on-your-mac/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 14:24:40 +0000 Michael http://www.michaeloglesby.com/?p=75 WordPressExternal link is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) on the Web today, but doing Research and Development (R&D) on the platform can be problematic at best. The reason being is any R&D that you do on a Live WordPress platform has a potential risk of bringing your website down. So, what do you do if you want to create a new theme or test a new plugin to see if it meets your needs?

Well, you can install WordPress locally on your Mac so that you can play around with the platform to your heart’s content. Luckily, there is a solution where you don’t need to install and configure the ApacheExternal link, PHPExternal link and MySQLExternal link packages on your Mac.

Setting up WordPress locally on your Mac tutorial

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