Hey, so I’ve recently decided to help build a website for a friend’s small company using wordpress and I’m a bit clueless about a few things. He has an old crappy website running on some hosting service and he wants to keep that running while I make him a new one, so I couldn’t immediately host the site while I work on it. I followed some guide to install and use xampp and phpmyadmin to create the site with plans to later swap the hosting service over to this site.
I started creating the website on my home pc but I would also like to be able to show up to the office in person with my laptop to show progress and make small edits every once in a while.
I realize that I can’t connect to localhost from a different machine or anything, but I was wondering if it’s possible/hard to transfer files to my laptop and run it there occasionally. Would this be a big hassle to do maybe once a week, or would it just make more sense to create the whole site using my laptop (I’ve barely started so I wouldn’t lose much by starting over on my laptop). I don’t really understand much about how localhost, xampp, wordpress and phpmyadmin work, so this might be a dumb question.
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LocalWP has an option to share your local environment with a client, see https://localwp.com/live-links/ It’s free and very easy to use and does exactly what you need. Another option would be to create a subdomain at his current hosting plan like dev.domain.com and build the new site there.
If you have a Mac you can use studio: https://developer.wordpress.com/studio/