How to work Wordpress website offline?

Question

I'm wondering how do people work on the website offline like without a host untill its finished then they proceed to host it live.This is what I want to do with my developer to assure everything goes smoothly and just would be better.I made the mistake of working on my website while it was hosted and google optimized crappy stuff.I don't know a damn thing about Wordpress so I'm leaving it up to the developer.Im also getting a dedicated server not a shared hosting this time and a managing company that will install all my proper Wordpress crap like apache etc etc.

Answer 1

To run WP on your own you *must* have PHP and MySQL and an appropriate Web server. If you don't have these you will have to get them.



The mistake you made was not immediately installing robots.txt in the root directory to tell the search engines to go away. If the bots can't get in, you can fiddle with it indefinitely online.

Answer 2

Just a comment, not an answer: I did several non-profit & family websites, and since they were cheezy free sites they occasionally wentout of business, taking my sites with them. The best one I found and use now (freehostia) has a sucky uptime, but no ads. So I keep full backups of all my sites and upload updated pages when they're "ready". If something dies in the cloud, I can be back up in minutes.



So that's the reason I haven't gone to a content management app. If you update a page constantly, Wordpress or its ilk is the way to go, but for occasional updates that you want to be perfect, use an offline editor. I use WYSIWYG editors like SeaMonkey or Blue Griffon, and tweak the code afterwards.

Answer 3

WordPress started in 2003. WordPress is an open source project. We are free to use it. WordPress is limited only by uses thinking. WordPress is completely customization and can be used for almost anything.

Answer 4

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