Can I work with my client using localhost?

  • Hi folks,

    I have installed and runned locally my WordPress site many times. Now I have got my first client assignment (a wordpress site) and I need to decide the best web designer-client workflow. He is an architect living in Germany and I am his “WordPress designer” living in Denmark. What would it be the best way to keep him on the loop regarding the website development process? Is it a way to use localhost in my computer and at the same time involve my client in the process? If yes How? Should I just upload the WordPress theme on the web hosting server and send him the url? The last option doesn’t seem to be the proper one. I hope you can advise me on this.

    Thanks in advance

    Angelostory

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  • You will be running the website you are developing at various web locations, your localhost, a private trial site at your client’s hosting, and ultimately your client’s live site. Accordingly get familiar with the moving WordPress drill.
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    This is what I would do:
    Develop the site on your localhost.
    When you want to show to your client a website, at the client’s hosting register a subdomain, and password protect it, so the client will view “https://trial.clientname.com/”
    Ultimately you will install upon “https://clientname.com/”

    Thread Starter angelostory

    (@angelostory)

    Thanks for your response Ross Mitchell.I will run some tests with my computers before moving forward with my client. I found something interesting online called forwardhq.com. Under the item “WordPress” I read the following headline: “Show your clients a WordPress site running on your computer—without FTPing the files to a test server a thousand times.” The thing is, I could not fine reliable reviews about this service…what do you think? It would also be a good choice?

    I see what you mean, very little commentary on the web.
    It will only cost $5 to find out, and some of your time.

    Please let us know how it works out.

    https://forwardhq.com/

    This is the workflow that I have successfully used:

    – set up the client site as a sub domain on my hosting account
    – they can access it any time and are kept in the loop on it’s progress
    – they are seeing “real world” performance as it is live on the web
    – when the time comes where they accept the site, I simply copy it to their hosting account

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