Developing on live WordPress site

1. use a local address with the same number of characters as the real site and do the search & replace on the text file as before – so if the real site is “https://www.thisistheurl.com” make the local site: “https://www.thisistheurl.loc” and add a rule to the PC’s hosts file to point that domain at 127.0. 0 1 so the PC doesn’t go off to a dns server look up for a non-existent address.

@cubecolour – I’m going to try this approach and am just wondering how the number of characters factors in.

I’m so inclined to just install Catablog on the live site and forget about having to install everything locally. The site doesn’t get a ton of traffic and I should only be affecting part of the site.