InstantWP VS Laravel Valet

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

Laravel valet https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/valet (seems to use homebrew to select php versions and nginx for servers + ssl). Source: over 2 years ago

I'm likely explaning it terribly, the Laravel documentation can do it better - Laravel Valet Docs. Source: over 2 years ago

For building PHP sites, we use [Laravel Valet(https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/valet) (Mac only) but when I first started I used MAMP/WAMP. Laravel Valet sets you up with an Nginx environment where MAMP/WAMP will give you Apache. They both have free options and give you the ability to run a local web server. For a hosting environment (like Bluehost), you’ll work in either an LAMP or LEMP stack. This stands for Linux... Source: over 2 years ago

Are you running on Mac or windows? If you’re using Mac I would recommend using Valet and then updating the php version according to the documentation at https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/valet. If you’re using windows I think you can just update is via shell commands but I’m not quite sure, haven’t used windows in years :p. Maybe this stack overflow article can help you... Source: over 2 years ago

Once installed you will need to run your project using a php server. I use Laravel Valet. It is easy to setup and use. - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago