Run site offline?

You can still do that if you like. ??

Not with WordPress or most Content Management Systems though.

What was your question again?

I have WordPress, so I guess it’s not possible unless the Xampp option?

Well, for WordPress you need a PHP-Server and a MySQL-Database.

Xampp provides an easy solution for that, if you want to use WordPress on your PC.

I don’t fully understand what Xampp will do to my PC, to turn it into a server, I don’t get it, I need to read up before I do anything.
All I want to do is to run my site offline and have another version online, a slimmed version.

Yes, Xampp will set up a local server on your PC.

You CAN build your website offline, then upload it as a whole. However, you do NOT need to build your website offline! Xampp is NOT required to build a WordPress-site, you can edit the whole thing directly online.

I guess you are used to editing individual html-files (which contain the content, i. e. text and links) on your pc, then upload it via ftp. Forget that, that’s not how WordPress works.

The content is not stored in files but in the database and organized and edited using the Dashboard (= Administration-Area). Of course you could edit the database directly to change the content, but that would be pretty stupid and defeat the purpose.
How the content is displayed on your website is determined via css and php files.

So my PC would act as a server pretty much like the server space I have right now but in this case it would be a closed environment ie offline.
I get it, thank you for your explanation, you’re very kind! ??