Modern Local Environment for WordPress in 2018
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The document discusses the advantages of modern local development environments for WordPress in 2018, highlighting the reasons for local development such as offline work and easy site management. It compares traditional solutions like LAMP and XAMPP with newer options like Local by Flywheel and DesktopServer, outlining their unique pros and cons. Local by Flywheel offers seamless integration and Docker support, while DesktopServer provides good compatibility with most hosts but lacks in software version flexibility.
Modern Local Environment for WordPress in 2018
- 1. Modern Local Environment for WordPress in 2018 Topher DeRosia @topher1kenobe
- 2. Local Development: Why? • Work without internet • Quickly spin up new sites • Quickly throw away garbage • Potentially recreate crazy server environments • Each person on a team get a quick and easy development environment that’s the same as everyone elses
- 3. How? The Old Hard Ways All of these options continue to be solid, viable development solutions • LAMP, WAMP, MAMP, XAMPP • Varying Vagrant Vagrants • Docker
- 4. How? The Awesome New Ways Modern WordPress Local Development allows for: • Creating WordPress sites quickly • Creating site templates • Ngrok support for remote viewing • Easy Import and Export
- 5. How? The Awesome New Ways
- 6. Local by Flywheel Unique Pros ● Easy import and export of entire sites ● Docker based ● Perfect integration with Flywheel ● Choice in PHP and MySQL versions Unique Cons ● No integration with other hosts ● Docker based
- 7. DesktopServer by ServerPress Unique Pros ● Easy import of common backup formats ● XAMPP based ● Good integration most hosts ● Plugin system Unique Cons ● Lack of choice in software versions ● XAMPP based