
If you have also been guilty of carrying out design tweaks on the fly, now is your opportunity to take your experiments offline.Īs you now know, creating a local WordPress site isn’t difficult at all – in fact, it only takes a few minutes. I’ve certainly been guilty of fiddling with my live blog and regretting the outcome. One of the key reasons for doing so would be the ability to test design changes without disrupting the live site. In Monday’s tutorial on creating a local WordPress site, I said that all WordPress users should have a local installation of WordPress on their PC.

Update: This is an old article (from 2012), and as such it may contain information that is now obsolete.
