Installing and Running WordPress: Local by FlyWheel

Installing and Running WordPress: Local by FlyWheel

English | MP4 | AVC 1280×720 | AAC 48KHz 2ch | 0h 38m | 85 MB

Whether you’re just learning to use WordPress or busy developing new WordPress websites and themes, having a local version is essential. Installing WordPress on your computer gives you full control for experimentation, development, and testing. You see the changes you make immediately—no need to upload and download files. Local by FlyWheel is a free application that makes it easy to get a local WordPress environment up and running fast. In this course, instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen helps you install and run WordPress locally on both Windows and Mac using Local. He then shows how to take advantage of all its benefits, including Live Link, local file access, cloning, and Blueprints, a special Local feature that makes launching your next WordPress site even easier.

Topics include:

  • Downloading and installing Local
  • Configuring SSL
  • Turning on and off local sites
  • Enabling and using Live Link
  • Accessing and editing local files and databases
  • Cloning and export sites
  • Creating and using Blueprints
Table of Contents

Introduction
1 WordPress on your computer with Local by Flywheel

Introduction to Local by Flywheel
2 How Local by Flywheel works
3 Download and install Local

Configuring Local and WordPress
4 Set up a new WordPress site
5 Walk-though
6 Configure SSL (HTTPS)
7 Turn sites on and off
8 Enable and use Live Link
9 Access files and database

Advanced Features
10 Configure defaults
11 Clone and export sites
12 Create and use Blueprints
13 Access SSH and WP-CLI

Conclusion
14 Next steps