building a site before it is live

  • Resolved pixelpuzzle

    (@pixelpuzzle)


    13 years ago

    Hi there. I am a newbie to wordpress. I want to leave an existing site standing while I build a new site on wordpress behind the scenes. How do I do this?

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  • BrianWK

    (@brianwk)

    Your best bet is to build it locally and then export it when you are ready. You will need a virtual server such as (lamp) for mac or (wamp) for windows. They are both free to download and fairly easy to setup.
    Windows Tutorial
    Mac Tutorial

    Once wordpress is running on your local machine you can develop away without anyone seeing the bugs and changes. When the site is published you need to move it to the web server. If you simple built a theme, move your local theme folder to the corresponding hosted theme folder. If you have content you need to do the following

    Thread Starter pixelpuzzle

    (@pixelpuzzle)

    Thank you!

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