mkol Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Hi I wanted to design a website in Wordpress. But I didn't wanted to do it on line with Wordpress. Is there anyway I can download the Wordpress software, design the site on the PC itself without publishing it... thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 tkaw220 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Yes. Your project remains offline as long as you did not upload it to live server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MarkusDarkus Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Download Wordpress to your machine and also download web server software like Xampp. Install Wordpress into Xampp and you can use that particular installation to create your theme. Once the theme is finished, you can export and install into the online wordpress installation. Tip. Download a sample content.xml file like the one here and it will help in the theme design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mkol Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 thanks, can you guys point me in the direction of tutorial website for basic user for word press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Max Norris Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 thanks, can you guys point me in the direction of tutorial website for basic user for word press. The codex has a bunch of tutorials on it. http://codex.wordpress.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guth Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 i use xampp, and make a new custom theme running on xampp so you just go to 127.0.0.1 to see your site when you are happy then save theme and upload to real site xampp is amazing for offline testing and developing. Easiest way is to use a theme boilerplate (i write mine custom usually, however thats harder) bones ( http://themble.com/bones/ ) is the best IMO but it uses LESS/SASS instead of CSS. You can use CSS but its awkward because it was really written for LESS/SASS good tut: http://wp.tutsplus.c...etting-started/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Lee G. Veteran Posted February 6, 2013 Veteran Share Posted February 6, 2013 I also use and recommend xampp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 moloko Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I use Uniserver. But there a million tutorials for building out your page. You can use the simple template in wordpress and build from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mkol Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 Thank you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 FlintyV Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 MS have WebMatrix 2. Install SQL, IIS and allows installing Wordpress with just a couple of clicks - http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mkol Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 Guys are there any good basic books for WordPress. I looked up dummies books for WordPress but the reviews on the Amazons are not that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 threetonesun Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 The Wordpress documentation is pretty good. I've personally never read a Wordpress book, for a number of a reasons. 1) Many are aimed at wordpress.com as well as host your own Wordpress. 2) There's not a lot on the market aimed at Development 3) From 2.x to 3.x Wordpress dumped a ton of functions in favor of (usually) better ways of doing things. But, the 2.x junk that hasn't been depreciated is still floating around in many of the plugins / themes out there. Anyway, for those 3 reasons I think it's best to just refer to the documentation. Read up on the loop first, then go from there. Jub 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jub Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Books to do what, exactly? Install it, manage it or develop for it? There are countless of documents and books out there touching every aspect of it. Google it. I use a development server for all my WP-related work. I find it's much easier and more efficient to use a real environment rather than packages like XAMPP or WAMP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Djarcane85 Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I would suggest this http://www.uniformserver.com/ for testing locally. Just a really easy local webserver to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I wanted to design a website in Wordpress. But I didn't wanted to do it on line with Wordpress. Is there anyway I can download the Wordpress software, design the site on the PC itself without publishing it...
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