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WordPress

James Ingmire
James Ingmire
11,901 Points
Posted by James Ingmire
James Ingmire
11,901 Points

How to edit a pre-existing Wordpress site in local host? Tutorial?

Is there a tutorial on treehouse how to take a pre-existing website from WordPress edit it locally? If not does anyone know of a video somewhere which shows this.

I have tried downloading the site via FTP running it in xampp but get errors or just code showing so take it this is the incorrect way.

Many thanks.

1 Answer

Andres Altuve
Andres Altuve
16,274 Points
Andres Altuve
Andres Altuve
16,274 Points

Hi James,

Check out the following link:

How to Move a Live WordPress Site to Local Server

Hope it works. Best of luck!