Editing WP on my PC then uploadin..

I’m not sure I follow – just to clarify, you downloaded and installed a WordPress instance on your local machine using WAMP?

But you need it to replicate a site that already exists?

Is the existing site a WordPress site?

If so, use a plugin like Duplicator (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/duplicator/) to clone the existing site, and use that clone to create the site on your local development environment.

Then use Child Themes to create the style and look that you’d like, testing it on your local dev environment.

Then when everything looks good, upload the parent theme and the child theme to the live site and then activate the child theme.

Also you can use the Duplicator plugin to go the other way – from a local dev environment to a staging environment or production environment.

Hope this helps.

Hi bemdesign, you nailed it. I want to take my current WP site (its a theme i bought) and edit, add and modify a few things but in DW.

I used Duplicator and stopped at the point where i had to get into my CPanel on my hosted server.

But the tutorials i saw with duplicator; download files and then uploaded them i guess to another web server but didnt show how to edit them in DW.

But i tried 2 ways, first i installed WAMP>then WP offline, set the credentials and after this, i viewed my site in WP offline and it looked very basic and nothing like my actual live site.

So i thought i was the way i imported from my live WP…then i found duplicator and it looked promising, but it didn’t show how to edit offline, the tutorials seemed to just duplicate the site and transfer to another web host.

BTW, i have to child themes set up

So start up your WAMP server. This basically will run a server on your local machine.

Next, install Duplicator on your live/production server.

Make a snapshot using Duplicator of your existing production site.

Download the archive of this Duplicator snapshot to your local machine.

Unzip the archive and grab the installer-backup.php file.

Place the ZIP file and this installer-backup.php file into your local WAMP server’s htdocs folder (place inside a empty directory named for the site if you want to be able to run multiple sites using WAMP).

Now point your browser at localhost/name-of-directory-holding-site/installer-backup.php

Fill in the details on how to connect to the MySQL database and follow the script directions.

Run the script and follow the directions and you should end up with an exact clone of your production site running locally.

Install your parent theme and then create a child theme on your local dev and go at it!

Once everything is done and tested locally (you may want to install the handy Developer plugin), you can use Duplicator to go the other way and move your “development” into production. Make sure no changes to production have been made since you made your snapshot/clone though!

Will this process in Dreamweaver have the site exactly how it looks in my WP site that is online or will it be the hello world ?

Using the Duplicator plugin, it can have the same exact content/data as your live site. Duplicator can basically capture everything – WP core, themes, plugins, uploads, and the database content.