March 27, 2021 — Many developers know to never make changes directly to a live site because of the risk of breaking the website.

But what if you don’t have access to a staging or development environment? Or even if you do, what happens if you are in a situation where you do not have reliable internet access!

Local development environments to the rescue!

October 3, 2020 — This talk explains the importance and advantages of using a local development environment. The examples in the talk happen on (Apple) macOS, but the talk also includes discussion about similar local environments for Linux and Windows. Learn about tools and how to use a local environment in your development workflow.

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June 27, 2020 — This is the third of a three-session WordPress 101 series that covers intermediate-level topics including WordPress multisite, site backup, child themes vs. custom themes, local development, plugin development; tools and workflow.

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July 26, 2019 — In this talk, I will introduce several tools and best practices for developing WordPress sites in a local environment. I will compare the most popular options and show a quick 5 minute tutorial on how to use each of the top 3 (Local by Flywheel, Desktop Server and MAMP)

November 20, 2018 — In past 14 years I have seen many technological shift in WordPress.

I would share with example and best use guide what I feel the best Local Development Environment for WordPress in 2018.

This will be a very helpful session anybody looking to drive deep into WordPress and who are already working in WordPress, they will be able to explore other better ways to improve their workflow.

December 2, 2017 — Optimierungstipps für die lokale WordPress Installation unter besonderer Berücksichtigung das man zwischen vielen installationen/Projekten ständig umschalten muss.

October 30, 2017 — As a containerization platform, Docker offers a fast and powerful way to boost your local development workflow. By presenting our company’s DevOps strategy and sharing the tools we’ve built to efficiently manage over 100 WordPress sites, I explore various aspects of Docker-based WordPress development, from running your own GitLab instance to synchronizing your sites with a production server.

October 31, 2016 — “Docker this, Docker that!” It seems like your nerd friend won’t shut up about this whole nautical technology. And he can be a real jerk about it, but he can sure spin up a local WordPress site faster than I can.

In this hands-on session, you will learn how easy Docker can be, and why it will quickly become your favorite local WordPress development environment. Whether you are a WordPress site designer, manager, or developer this session is for you.

Learn how to replace your LAMP or MAMP stacks with Docker.

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October 9, 2016 — На конференции Коля расскажет об одном из полезных инструментов для разработки и тестирования — VVV (Varying Vagrant Vagrants). Это решение позволяет автоматизировать создание и конфигурирование локального сервера и сайтов, расположенных на нем.

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July 28, 2016 — A local development environment is a safe way to practice and test changes to your site without effecting your live site.

Come learn why and how to install a local development environment on both Windows and Macs.

This session is for beginners and we’ll look at using XAMPP and talk about other environments such as MAMP, WAMP, Vagrant and others.

Take aways:

– Why to install a local environment.
– How to install XAMPP.
– What are some of your other choices.

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