Installing WordPress on Your Computer

Posted by Wonder

October 6, 2008

Just a couple of quick notes about installing WordPress on your local machine as I did in my previous post.

Don’t try to change the name of your blog folder after installing it. You will really mess things up and, if you are like me, have to start all over again. It’s much harder the second time around.
Don’t try to replicate an error you are having on your live blog on your local machine. You will succeed and not be able to access either copy of your blog.

I had an error here because I tried to install a sidebar widget that apparently was not compatible with this version of WordPress. So, of course, I installed everything in my local install just to figure out which one it was.

Long story short, I could not access either blog and it took a whole morning to start over.

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