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Working locally

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About Me
• Father / Grandfather
• Husband
• Freelancer
• WordPress Fanatic
• Lover of travel
What I Am
What I Am NOT
• A Public Speaker
• An Expert

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What do we need?

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Work on a train

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Work on a plane

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In a park

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Even on the moon

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Could this be you?
It’s happened to me!

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Don’t Cowboy Code

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How Can I Save Time?
• Create a quick and simple workflow
• Work with a local development site
• Create blueprints
• Direct Deploy
• Import & Test active sites on local system

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Steps to setting up a website
• Create a source folder
• Put an entry in the Hosts file
• Put an entry into the Apache vHosts
• Create a database and the user
• Upload the WordPress files and config
• Restart web and database services

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DEMO TIME!

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Avoid the built-in editor
http://www.carriedils.com/editing-wordpress-site-101/

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Blueprints

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My Contact Info:
Gregg Franklin
gregg@serverpress.com
@DesktopServer