Create a Development Version of an Existing WordPress Site
UPDATE : This article provides a manual approach to creating a development copy of your website. However, I ran across this WPBeginner article which describes a much easier approach using the Duplicator plugin. I would suggest following that guide unless you prefer the manual process. Before We Start Here’s my environment setup. This post should still be helpful if your setup isn’t exactly the same, though. GoDaddy Hosting (production) WAMP (development) phpMyAdmin (production + development) Files Download WordPress Files Instead of using the WordPress export feature, we’re going to grab all site’s files....