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InstantWP DevKinstaBased on our record, DevKinsta should be more popular than InstantWP. It has been mentiond 8 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I have a couple different blogs, one of them is journal-like. I use a self-hosted WordPress. I highly recommend* WP because you can do pretty much anything with it and it works great as a journal/diary right out of the box. If you host it online and want it private that's easy enough to do with a plugin and a few settings tweaks. However, WordPress does not actually require it be on the internet to work. You can... Source: over 1 year ago
Offline Editing/Testing Tool: (https://instantwp.com) $0 ... DONT make edits to a live site, unless your superman (ps you arnt). Good for demo's, stand-alone from USB/cloud. Source: almost 2 years ago
If you don't want anyone to see the site does it need to be online at all? You could use something like https://instantwp.com or https://localwp.com to host a local instance of WordPress. You would be able to install any plugin you want. Source: over 2 years ago
I think they're referring to InstantWP. Source: almost 3 years ago
If OP is just wanting to tinker around and also not install anything, they could download InstantWP and put a blank PHP file in the base directory and access it through a web browser locally. Source: about 3 years ago
More recently I've been working with Kinsta. Although they are more expensive, the platform is way more developer friendly. You can manage your own deployment pipeline through GIT or use their DevKinsta development tool. They also offer application hosting. The biggest attraction to me is their support and CDN which automatically optimises images and serves WebP. Source: about 1 year ago
Sorry, I thought Laragon was cross platform. DevKinsta runs on Linux. You might give it a try. It requires Docker. https://kinsta.com/devkinsta/. Source: over 1 year ago
You can use local server for development (e.g. Local WP or DevKinsta...). When you create a new website, wizard will ask you for an address - simply provide domain of old website. It will work without any problems 👍 Then when you finish new website all you need to do will be transferring files and database and update wp-config.php database connection settings 😋. Source: over 1 year ago
I recently used Dev Kinsta to test some theme options for a project. I was quite happy with the results. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
I wrote this script to run on my Macbook - https://github.com/systmweb/valetpress also have a look at DevKinsta which is great https://kinsta.com/devkinsta/. Source: over 2 years ago
Local by Flywheel - Provides a simple, local development environment with a friendly GUI.
XAMPP - XAMPP is a free and open-source cross-platform web server that is primarily used when locally developing web applications.
BionicWP - WordPress hosting, come for the speed & stay for the support
WordPress Portable - With WordPress Portable you can experience the most popular blogging platform right out of the box. Just download, extract and run it!
EasyWP - Get a WordPress website online in under 60 seconds
Laragon - All in one web server.