If you have ever done any website development you are bound to come across WordPress. What started out as a blogging platform now powers the over 35% of the websites you may visit. While its advantages over creating sites with static html files include the vast amount of templates and plugins available there is one minor drawback when it comes to developing with it. That drawback is that if you want to make huge changes to a template or a transfer a site from static files to WordPress there maybe a downtime of your site if you are doing it all live. In the old days you could develop your new static html files locally and ftp them when you were happy to go live with your new site. Fortunately there is a way to develop with WordPress offline and that is to set up a local WAMP server on your PC. Continue reading “Local WordPress development with a Wamp Server”