How to Set Up Local Development

It is sometime beneficial to build your website on your local computer before launching it online. Some reasons for this may be:

• You are not ready to purchase a hosting service but want to get started building your website.
• You are collaborating with other developers and want that each developer have their own space to make modifications and test behavior before pushing changes online.
• You are making modifications to your theme files and need a testing environment for quick feedback before pushing to your online website.

If this is something you are considering, we recommend a tool called Local. This tool allows you to very easily run a Wordpress installation in your local computer.

We won't go into detail on how to utilize Local, however you can learn how to use Local by checking out their documentation which covers installation and configuration in detail.