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Developing In WP Offline?

by goin4it
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Hey everyone,

I recently purchased a seasoned domain along with its content. I am new to WP and Site Development for that matter. I was wanting to know if there is a way to develop a Wordpress site offline without having to assign a domain to it initially. I want to do this so I dont have a lot of down time when the site is pushed to me from the company I bought it from. Currently this domain gets crawled 3 time per day by Google and I dont want to spend time developing a live site and take a chance on messing up the crawl rate. I am thinking that if I can do this it will allow me to instantly issue a source code to the domain as soon as it is transferred and avoid any unnecessary down time. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonthewebmaster
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    The only way is if you have a PHP and MYSQL Server installed on your windows.

    I use WAMP for this:
    Install PHP 5 Apache MySQL on Windows : WampServer

    It's like having a virtual server attached to your computer. That way you can view the files and database of your wordpress site exactly how they appear on a real hosting account.

    It's pretty complicated, so it might just be better to develop your site on a sub-domain or something and then move it to the real domain when you are ready to go live.

    Cheers
    Jason
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    • Profile picture of the author goin4it
      Thanks Jason. I recently came across a product called Instant Wordpress... have you heard of this? it sounds like it has everything built into it that you described. I am not sure if this is the way to go or not. I certainly dont want to get into anything too complicated as my skill level cant handle it ..lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    What Jason said or XAMPP - a similar package to make your machine to work as a local server with Apache, PHP, MySQL and everything installed by one click.

    With the product you mentioned I have only one problem: it comes with the WP package included in it... and as we all know, WP is updated quite often. Which means you will always have to wait until they make a new "instant... " package.

    With the other two solutions you can have WP installed in the moment the new version is out. I have on my machine folders like:
    localhost/27
    localhost/29
    localhost/3
    localhost/311 etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author goin4it
      I Wasn not confident enough to set up a virtual server on my PC. So I went the route of doing this as a subdomain with the privacy options set to block search engines. I am doing it all through FTP and keeping track of my work so that WHEN i mess something up I can fix it..lol. Thanks for all of your help....very much appreciated!
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      • Profile picture of the author omavo
        I personally develop all my wordpress theme offline using WAMP Server on Windows before deploying online.

        Working WP offline behaves exactly the way it would online.

        Hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      With the product you mentioned I have only one problem: it comes with the WP package included in it... and as we all know, WP is updated quite often. Which means you will always have to wait until they make a new "instant... " package.
      That's not a problem or a disadvantage in my opinion. If the installed version is out of date, then it can be upgraded with a couple of clicks in the backend. And realize that Instant Wordpress currently comes with Wordpress 3.2. It's not as if it's two years out of date.

      The Instant Wordpress package looks like it's really easy for beginners. The Bitnami Wordpress stack also allows people to get up and running with wordpress quick.

      But no matter how you install Wordpress, you're going to have to eventually upgrade if you want to keep Wordpress up to date.
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  • Profile picture of the author foreignnative
    I was wondering about this to. I'd like to experiment with how posts/ plugins look/work without publishing them. It seems ridiculous to me to post when someone is viewing my WP site. They'd head back to the homepage then see a new (broken/buggy?!) plugin. I like the idea of using a subdomain for testing. That's an easy/no cost solution. thanks jasonthewebmaster
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