Setting up WordPress locally on your Mac
May 30
IT Tips Apache, locally, macintosh, MySQL, PHP, setting, up, Wordpress
WordPress
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 Apache
, PHP
and MySQL
packages on your Mac.
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! What an excellent piece of software, and the beautiful thing is, it’s absolutely FREE!