sonouna

Thank you so much!
I’ll give that a try early next week and update here when I’m done.
Elena

Thanks RossMitchell
I think I do have VHost set up, I followed these instructions instead:
https://foundationphp.com/tutorials/vhosts_mamp.php
and I see some of the steps match those in the links you provided.

Can you please clarify this sentence

Then you can turn off the selection of the live website and your local copy by a simple edit of your hosts file.

Where would I turn of selection of the live site? That one is not hosted locally, it’s hosted on Dreamhost.
Are you suggesting that the local domain should name match the live site domain?
Are the changes I did on the wp-config.php file still necessary?

thanks ?? – as I said I’m pretty confused about this new section of WordPress development

Elena

Any idea about this?
It generates the url correctly (codifi.info/?s=something) but it displays the static home page instead of the query result in a blog page.
I can successfully run a search within a category or tag by manually typing the prefix in the url

https://www.codifi.info/training/?s=something (CATEGORY)
https://www.codifi.info/tag/archaeology/?s=something (TAG)

but of course the results are limited.
If I try under /blog/, which displays all posts, then I do get the right selection of posts, but no header “Search results for …” and it still displays the slider ??
https://www.codifi.info/blog/?s=something

Hope it’s clearer now… I found more threads about this but they ended up having to substitute stuff in search.php that’s just not there for me!
Thanks for any help ??

There’s no search on the Home Page because the home page is a HTML file, not part of the WP theme! You have to try the search in any page of the blog, like
codifi.info/blog/ or codifi.info/training/.