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

By: Fabrice

Fabrice — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:31:32 +0000

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Great great stuff!

By: Ramon

Ramon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:44:58 +0000

Hi! I have followed all the steps and the main page loads at http://localhost.
However, when I click on any post or page, all I get are “Not found” errors.

I have the Permalinks plugin by John Bloch installed and this is what is causing the problem. I changed the Permalink settings to default and now I can browse.

However, this is not satisfactory since I do need to use the Permalinks once I’m done working on http://localhost and implement the changes to the live site.

Can you or anyone here point me to the right direction on how to make permalinks work on http://localhost?

By: Damian Saunders

Damian Saunders — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:35:50 +0000

Hi Mark,
Thanks so much, I’d been frustrated with this for a while now and other tutorials don’t cover the php Admin steps like you did.

Still have a couple of glitches with images using fully qualified URLs etc but there’s enough to develop and test.

Cheers
Damian
http://www.damiansaunders.net

By: darkhoro

darkhoro — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:58:48 +0000

OHH MAANNN thanks a lot, you helped me a lot !

P.S : for people who use easyphp, put http://127.0.0.1:8888/folder_name in siteurl and home.

By: Takis Vakatasis

Takis Vakatasis — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:11:02 +0000

hello Mark
thank you so much for this detailed step by step guide…..i follow your steps and finally i made my wordpress theme working locally (my site is: http://www.judo.com.gr)
Best Regards
Takis

By: Beri

Beri — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:56:13 +0000

Great guideline, many thanks!!

I did have a problem though. The homepage was showing correctly on localhost, but clicking on any post or page resulted in an ‘cannot find url’ error. I finally found out how to resolve it:
Go to http://localhost/portal/wp-admin/options-permalink.php and change the setting to default.

By: sara

sara — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:55:18 +0000

Excellent write-up. I have problems when trying to import my database as the file is too big. How can I get around this issue?

Many thanks

By: milesj

milesj — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:14:53 +0000

Seemed so simple, however, when I followed all the steps and went to URL localhost:8888/wordpress (I’m running MAMP), the browser window is just blank. Similarly if I go to wp-login.php and login the screen browser remains blank.

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!