Installing WordPress on your own Windows computer | Urban Giraffe

Installing WordPress on your own Windows computer | Urban Giraffe: Installing WordPress on your own Windows computer

We generally become WordPress users to create a blog for everyone to see. This can involve the purchasing of a domain name and web hosting. These we treat as black boxes on which the WordPress software is installed, and everything magically works. This is exactly how it should be.

Although WordPress provides a comprehensive management interface, there are times when it would be better to have our own local copy, running on our own machine. There are several reasons we would want to do this:

A working backup of our online site
A development site to develop plugins and themes without affecting our online site
A testing area to try out hacks and new versions of WordPress without fear of corrupting the live site
A staging area to create and verify posts, before releasing them live