Setting Up a Local WordPress Development Environment

Presented by Gregory Young, • Workshop Track

Using free tools, this topic will be exploring how to set-up and configure a local WordPress development environment. Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring along a laptop with at least 5 GB of free space. The tools we will be covering will work with most modern PC, MAC or Linux computers.

Topics will include enabling virtualization on your hardware, installing the VirtualBox virtualization environment, installing the TurnKey Linux WordPress appliance, first run set-up of TurnKey Linux and basic WordPress configuration.

The presentation will be in a workshop format where attendees are highly encouraged to install the tools during the presentation.

Level: All

Prerequisites: Participants should be comfortable with installing software on their computer.

To help reduce time and traffic downloading during the workshop, please download the correct version of Virtual Box for your laptop, and the WordPress appliance in advance of the workshop.  We will have some copies available on USB sticks.

Virtual Box:

WordPress appliance: