317 – Work on Your Sites on Your Computer with Local

Announcements WordPress.org Home Page Redesigned Wallace WordPress theme Is there a plugin for that? With more than 43,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository. For more great plugins, download my 50 Most Useful Plugins eBook. MyBookProgress by Author Media is a WordPress progress tracking plugin to help authors keep track of their progress and communicate with their readers. Work on Your Sites on Your Computer with Local The standouts features for Local: * Mac only (as at publishing). * Allows different versions of PHP (so you can run PHP7) * Easy setup of local HTTPS. * Very clean UI and setup process. Which is Best? If I was starting from scratch, I would choose Local by Flywheel. It’s free and it works, and arguably has a better feature set. Plus, since I’m not a full-time developer and don’t have new projects / deployments to multiple servers, this will work for me If you are on Windows – you will need to go Desktop Server. Maybe the next version of Desktop Server will have more features, but it will cost. I will continue to use DesktopServer as the time to migrate off of it is too much of a hassle for me right now View on YourWebsiteEngineer.com