Localhost or hosting server? (if possible)

  • Is is usually viable to do the development of a WordPress site on the hosting company’s server in such a way as to keep it unavailable for public access until ready?

    I’m intending to do most of the work on my daughter’s site, though as it’s a collaborative effort we’ll both be taking a hand in it from different parts of the world.

    If I do the development on my local machine using WampServer there’s likely to be a bit of an access bottleneck for her, due to my very basic Internet service.

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  • Hello there!
    WP has an option to prevent search engines to crawl your site and keep it private until it is ready for production/release: WP admin –> Settings –> Privacy.
    Other than that, if you both have Dreamweaver or any other advanced code editing software, you can work with file check out “On” so as not to overwrite each other’s work.
    Finally, you could also use subversion (SVN), but it seems slightly overkill if only two contributors will be working on the project.
    Cheers!

    Thread Starter CHMike

    (@chmike)

    Thanks very much Marventus, that’s a big help.

    No pb. Don’t hesitate to let me know if you have more questions or need more information.
    Good luck with your project!

    Hi!
    Please don’t forget to mark this thread as resolved whenever you get a chance.
    Thanks!

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