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WordPress Local WordPress Development Local WordPress Development Installing WordPress Locally

Kate Moore
Kate Moore
22,916 Points
Posted by Kate Moore
Kate Moore
22,916 Points

Is it better to work on wordpress locally than a dev site?

I have dev1.example.com set up with a 1 click wordpress install. Can I do my practice here and skip all of the local wordpress setup? Is there an advantage to working locally as opposed to creating multiple dev sites to work on projects? Will I still have access to download all of the wordpress files?

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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

IMO a local dev is easier because you don't have to constantly be FTP'ing files to a dev server. Instead the files are just read locally. Usually I build locally, and than when I want to do some testing on multiple devices, networks, etc I'll upload to a dev site and test, and than finally to a production server.