Comments on: How to create a local copy of a wordpress site

By: Ryan Erwin

Ryan Erwin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:59:51 +0000

Some people would prefer not update the database content every time they copy the database from Live back to their local system for development.

The WordPress Developer Site has some documentation on patching the wp-includes/functions.php file to avoid any SQL changes when reloading the database.

Running a Development Copy of WordPress at codex.developer.com.

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Ryan Erwin
Shanghai, China

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:57:52 +0000

Thanks Mark!

Been looking everywhere and this is the first place mentioning the changes for the siteurl and home. And that did it!

By: Michael Soriano

Michael Soriano — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:46:53 +0000

thank you for this. very clear and easy to follow.

By: Paul Kiddie’s Blog : HTTP Server error 500 Wordpress

Paul Kiddie’s Blog : HTTP Server error 500 Wordpress — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:52:26 +0000

[...] a staging production server, again using a SVN checkout. I’ve been using a great tutorial at “http://mark-kirby.co.uk/2008/how-to-create-a-local-copy-of-a-wordpress-site/ to copy Wordpress installs and it deals well with the issues concerning moving Wordpress installs [...]

By: Marcela

Marcela — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:21:21 +0000

Thank you so much for your tutorial. I was able to set up everything with no problems. I still have some glitches to solve but at least I now have a local copy of my site to play around with.
This was great help

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:46:55 +0000

Kudos to you, Mark! This is the best explanation (and I took a good look at several) and the only trouble I had was just discovering (thanks to the Demers Designs comment) that I needed to set the permalinks to the default.

Brilliant! Now I can demo a blog for an organization that won’t have an internet connection for our meeting.

By: eggplant64

eggplant64 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:24:12 +0000

Amazing! I’ve been having such a headache with this and then came across this page. Completely resolved all the issues I was having. Thanks you!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:53:19 +0000

Thanks for the complete and easy to follow guide, now I have a working localhost and time to modify my templates. Thanks for this great guide! Keep it up

By: Demers Designs

Demers Designs — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:23:07 +0000

Great write up. I would like to add one more step that may or may not be necessary. If you are using a custom permalink structure, your links to individual posts and categories may not work when you bring your site to a local server. I have found that if you switch the permalinks back to default, save, and then go back to your custom settings, it should work fine. I assume it is something about the .htaccess file not copying from the live server. Hope this helps someone…

By: John

John — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:22:45 +0000

A note on user permissions – I had some issues with the host type – basically, in the wp-config file you need to check the DB_HOST entry. If the host is ‘localhost’ the user in the local mySQL should be set to host – localhost. If the host is ‘127.0.0.1? the user should be set to host – any.

Sir, could you explain what the above text means?