Running Wordpress Locally on OS X
Will on January 04, 2009
When you’re a designer or developer for Wordpress, the slow loading times of the back-end and constant page upload and reload after changing only one line of code in your favourite editor can become a chore. One way to battle this is enabling the Turbo option in the top, right hand corner of the back-end. If you’re using Mac OS X, there is a solution. Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP.
You can download and install MAMP, then follow instructions from the web. It installs a local server environment on your HD and has a dedicated folder to run Wordpress. It is truly a 5 minute process and is a dream to use.
Combine that with an FTP client, an easy-to-use and stylish code editor like coda from panic, you have yourself a streamlined Wordpress workflow.
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