In this episode, we look at local development, and how that can help your workflow. What options are there for local development, and what do you do with a local site when it's time to deploy.

We examine why you need a local environment in your workflow, and some choices for getting started.

Our WordPress panel this week:

Jackie D'Elia: https://jackiedelia.com

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen: https://www.lynda.com/

Sallie Goetsch: https://wpfangirl.com

Jonathan Denwood: https://www.wp-tonic.com/

John Locke:  https://www.lockedowndesign.com/

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Table of Contents for Episode 188

0:00 Podcast intros.

4:08 WordPress News Story #1: Scaling WordPress Image Serving with Tachyon

14:57 WordPress News Story #2: Is The Design Firm an Endangered Species?

28:20 Main Topic: Local Development Environments in WordPress

28:28 Why should you develop locally? What advantages are there by incorporating it into your workflow?

30:50 Use the simplest possible setup for local development when you're getting started.

35:02 The panel has lots of thoughts on different local development setups.

50:28 You should always backup your database when working locally.

57:25 Podcast outros.

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Links mentioned during the show:

Amazon Web Services by Delicious Brains

Design Thinking (IDEO)

Teehan+Lax Partners Join Facebook Design (2015)

Discussion: The Future of the Digital Design Agency (2015)

"Anyone who influences what the design becomes is the designer."

DesktopServer

Installing and Running WordPress: DesktopServer

Migrate DB Pro

Moving WordPress with WP Migrate DB and DB Pro

Local by Flywheel

Bitnami

Mergebot

MAMP & MAMP Pro

XAMPP

Vagrant

Source Tree

Rethink.fm Schedule

WordPress: REST API

East Bay WordPress Meetups

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https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/188-local-development-environment-wordpress/

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