Comments on: How to Copy Your Online WordPress Blog to XAMPP on Your Local Computer or USB Drive

By: figaro

figaro — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:53:56 +0000

Watch the videos again…you missed a step somewhere.

By: Ooi

Ooi — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:46:04 +0000

Hi, i follow all the instruction.

But after i import the sql ( after made changes ), its direct me to :

http://localhost/xampp/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

Can you please guide me to settle this problem?

Thanks

By: Steve Barman

Steve Barman — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:17:46 +0000

I’ve been looking for literally months for a good tutorial on how to go from a live wordpress blog into a test environment. Thank you!

By: figaro

figaro — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:02:37 +0000

Thanks for the info Laurence…glad you found this helpful.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:48:35 +0000

This process works fine – in fact I wish I had done this first before stuffing around with other plugins and migration solutions.

Issues I had

a) my theme wasn’t activated when I loaded my copied site (all content was successfully copied) – no problem just re-selected it under Appearance (using Weaver)

b) My header logo not displayed – no problem just re-selected it under Appearance

c) Plugins not activated – this actually gave an error on the front page upon loading – because I use an index plugin- still no real issue, just reactived all the plugins

d) Couldn’t add a new plugin – I wanted to use my localhost site as a test for new functionality – no real issue – opened wp-config and commented out the line
define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’ ……
and all was Ok

Somewhere out there is probably a plugin that actually migrates properly but really the process demonstrated above is very easy and you actually feel you have control so you know what is going on and how things are progressing.

I’m very happy I found the solution on this site

Highly recommend

By: mushtaq

mushtaq — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:39:54 +0000

thanks a lot..
this worked for me..:)
will i am using WAMP.. what kinda problems can i expect.
thanks in advance

By: Christine Golden

Christine Golden — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:27:49 +0000

Just wanted you to know this video is still helping people. Thanks so much! I will be referring to your site a lot now, too.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:35:15 +0000

@Robert actually... I ran into the same issue as Harry. =(

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:52:34 +0000

Many thanks for this.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:24:30 +0000

I think part of the problem is that I am using Worpdress as a CMS. When I went in to replace the URL’s I still see some there, for instance http://hungryhappyhealthy.com/wp-content/… I replaced hungryhappyhealthy.com/blog with localhost/xampp/wordpress, so my thought is that is only replacing the blog itself and not the static home page settings. Any thoughts on correcting that issue?

It appears that there is not an issue with the Child Theme, though. All of the widget areas, colors, etc, come up. But, I did not change permalinks prior to import, so I will do that as well.