I recently had a project that required an extensive amount of customization to a WordPress Theme. The following article describes how I setup a WordPress blog on my home computer to work through the changes on the theme.
The web site that was to be upgraded was already generating significant traffic. So using the conventional methods for updating a theme on a live site was out of the question. Especially since my changes were going to break something until I had tested them all. So my challenge was, how to setup a hosting service on my home computer with PHP, MySQL and all of the other bits and pieces necessary to run a self-hosted WordPress blog.
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