winston101

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  • Mine is up and running now. I simpley ftp’d my ‘wordpress’ directory from my webspace into the ‘htdocs’ directory of XAMPP and then followed the steps on this page which is mentioned above:
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

    It’s probably just as easy to download WordPress as it is to copy the folders from your webspace because you still have to install it on your localhost and then use the export facility on your live blog to get all your posts etc onto your local version.

    The export facility is found at: /wordpress/wp-admin/export.php
    on your webspace.

    Hope that’s of help to anyone who is still stuck or anyone who finds this thread.

    p.s. I’m not too sure what this ‘permalink’ stuff is about but all the links to my categories and posts etc seem to work just fine.

    To: Otto42

    Cheers. I’m using XAMPP as well.

    Just a couple of questions. What do you mean by SVN? And also i take it that exporting from my webhost wordpress will mean i can tell it where to export to i.e. my localhost version?

    Thanks.

    Hi.

    I’m pretty new to WordPress and I’m attempting to do what you guys seem to be trying to do.

    I take it that you have copied all the WordPress files from your ‘wordpress’ directory on your webhost onto your localhost before trying any of the stuff mentioned above?

    I’m just trying to weigh up whether it’s worth doing all this stuff. Downloading all the files and changing all the references to my webhost within my WordPress database to reference my localhost instead of just using ftp because surely I’ll have to change all the references back when i put it live.

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