Avoiding Disaster: Setting Up Your Local Development Environment

Editing a WordPress site on a live server is quick and simple. It’s also one step away from disaster.

The goal of this talk is to give you all the knowledge and tools you need to develop WordPress on a local machine, and then to push those changes to a live website. We will automate as much of the process as possible, giving you more time to actually develop your site instead of copying files back and forth or clicking dozens of menus to export and import databases. Topics discussed will include local web servers and databases, file version control (Git), and database synchronization.