Once you’ve experienced speed and reliability, there’s no going back. Remember the era before high-speed internet, when you had to wait for videos to buffer? Awful times. Three cheers for the modern internet speeds! If you’re used to developing your sites on a live server, that’s exactly what shifting to a local development environment such as XAMPP would feel like. …
How to Upgrade XAMPP for WordPress Without Losing Anything
There are a lot of things to love about XAMPP, but the update process is not one of them. There’s nothing automatic about it, and you can go ahead and plan on hitting a few bumps along the way. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the process so you can get XAMPP up-to-date with minimal hassle – and without …
How to Troubleshoot and Fix Common XAMPP and WordPress Issues
So you’ve got XAMPP installed and a fresh local installation of WordPress set up. Next, time to install that perfect theme. But wait! What’s this business about a fatal error and maximum execution time? Just when you thought you were past all the hard stuff… Running into issues when developing with XAMPP is normal, especially if you’re working with it …
Migrating WordPress from a XAMPP Localhost to the Web
So you’ve finished developing a WordPress website locally using your XAMPP development environment and you’re ready to push your work online. There’s just one problem: you don’t know how to get your website from your computer to a web server without breaking it, and breaking your site would really defeat the whole point of local development. Fortunately, there are a …
How to Move WordPress for Local Development with XAMPP
XAMPP is a popular, free, open-source web server you can install on your computer and use to power local WordPress installations. This makes XAMPP a great option for developers who want to develop sites and test plugins and themes locally before pushing those changes to a live website. Using a local development environment is a good idea in many different …