Do you want to create a development environment on WordPress? Creating a duplicate site on your accountaccommodation is an easy fix, but it's not the only way to do this. Whether you are looking for a safe environment to do your development or a reliable environment for testing (or maybe both), there are other ways to set this up.

So, let's take a look at some tools that will help you set up the development environment for WordPress.

1 - WP_DEBUG

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WP_DEBUG is an essential WordPress command for anyone who wants to test their code. By default it is set to "false" in your wp-config.php file.

When testing your code (and only in a test environment, because you do not want to see these errors when your blog is published), set this option to "true", and you may see an error message every time you forget a semicolon in your code, or worse.

Once you have completed the test, do not forget to disable this. You will need to be able to copy the contents of the file wp-config.php Between your test site and your live site, but this is not always a good solution.

This will also allow you to get rid of the white screen of death.

2 - Theme Unit Test Data

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The review team of WordPress theme provides a comprehensive data set designed to test WordPress themes before they are submitted for filing WordPress theme. But this data is useful for theme development in general.

Importing this data into your staging site will allow you to add articles, pages, categories, tags, media etc, which allows you to test your blog display to see how it looks.

If you submit a theme to the repository wordpress theme.org, you should never do it without testing it with this data, and if you are creating a theme for a site that customers or other people have, it makes sense to do testing with any type of data that might be relevant. be used with your theme.

3 - MAMP

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If you are setting up a local development environment, MAMP is the most useful tool you can have in your belt.

MAMP stands for "My Apache - MySQL - PHP. It allows you to run a website with a database on your local machine. The free version has all the features you need to install and run WordPress locally, and allows thousands of web developers to work locally, whether that's to have a secure development environment or to work while you're offline.

There was a time that MAMP was right for Mac, but it now works on Windows machines as well, which makes it even more useful.

4 - XAMP

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If you are using Linux, MAMP will not work for you, so you will need to install XAMPP instead. Like MAMP it's free, and lets you run Apache, MySQL, and PHP, which means you can install WordPress locally.

XAMPP is open source which means that it is a great alternative for people who prefer to use open source software because it works not only on Linux, on Windows and Mac too.

5 - WP CLI

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WP-CLI means " WordPress Command Line Interface ". It allows you to perform various tasks in your WordPress installation via the command line rather than through admin screens or your provider's admin system.accommodation.

By using WP-CLI you will be able to perform tasks like backup, data migration, WordPress installation and much more and it is much faster. Again, you'll need to spend some time learning how to use it and what commands are available to you, but full documentation is provided on the WP-CLI website.

You don't install it the same way you would with a plugin or theme, but via command line installs using the "wp command" installation package.

6 - SnapShot Pro

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The Snapshot Pro plugin is designed to help you back up your site and especially restore it (quickly and easily). But it can also be used when you want to migrate your site or keep it in sync with WordPress test environment.

This method is not what an advanced WordPress developer would do - the tools above are considered more professional - but if you are wary of the command line and prefer to use plugins, then Snapshot Pro can help you with your testing process.

That's all for this list of tools that you can use on WordPress.