Websites are usually hosted online, but you may need to build a local WordPress site for various reasons. Whether you’re creating a staging area, testing new designs, or starting your next freelance project, Local is one of the best ways to make an offline WordPress site. It’s simple to put WordPress on your computer, clone your site, and even publish content straight from your local machine with this easy-to-use and powerful tool. Plus, you can push your website live with Local integrations. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to easily start a new freelance project with Local. We’ll […]

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. Powered by RedCircle David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl. I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you here every week on Press This. As a reminder, you can follow me on […]

Local (formerly known as Local by Flywheel) is a powerful tool with loads of useful features for local WordPress development. It has all necessary the functionality to create a local server and run WordPress sites on it. We also have a detailed tutorial for how to use it. As a more casual user, there might be a number of Local features that you might not be aware of. In order to make up for that, in this post we will look at some of those less obvious capabilities of the program that can make your life a lot easier. Knowing […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. This week we talked to Nyahsa Green, the Editorial Director at MasterWP and a Software Developer at Howard Development and Consulting, about how to bring more new users and developers in the WordPress community. Nyasha has published a few great articles on MasterWP about the topic, so we were really excited to have her join us on this episode to talk about it.

In most cases, you want as many people as possible to visit your website. However, you can also create a “local” site that only you and other users within your network can access. Local WordPress sites are amazing tools for development and testing, and best of all, they’re free to use. A local WordPress website works just like any regular installation. You can install plugins and themes, access the site’s core files, and edit its code. However, since you’re using a local environment, the website should instantly load. In this article, we’ll discuss when it makes sense to use a […]

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. Powered by RedCircle David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl. I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you here every week on Press This. As a reminder, you can follow me on […]

If you’re a WordPress developer, you’re probably looking to set up a local development environment where you can test your changes before pushing them to your live site. However, you might not know the best way to go about it. There are a few different ways to move a live WordPress site to a local environment. The best option will likely depend on your experience level, and the migration process might only take a few minutes. In this post, we’ll discuss why you may want to move a live website to a staging environment. Then, we’ll share two different ways […]

WordPress is a fantastic resource when you’re looking to build your own website. Since its creation in 2003, it has grown from a blog-publishing site to supporting media galleries, forums, online stores, and mailing lists. But with its many great features, some may miss the current spotlight. Whether you’re a new user or a WordPress veteran, AI plugins might be something you haven’t considered utilizing. Here are eight WordPress plugins that can improve your website! Why Are AI Plugins Useful? While AI seems like a futuristic computing model, it’s already in use to develop the internet. Music apps give us […]

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. You can find out more about WP Engine’s acquisition here. Powered by RedCircle David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl. I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you here every week on Press […]

CSS offers several different ways to declare colors, each with its own syntax, benefits, and drawbacks. It can get a bit confusing especially since they are still adding new ways. If you are not always sure how you should go about and declare your colors in CSS, in this post we want to shine a light on this issue. In the following, we will go over different ways for assigning colors to website elements, how to use them, the pros and cons, and when to use what. Assigning Colors in CSS Declaring colors in CSS is generally not very hard. […]