Q&A: How do I copy my WordPress blog onto my computer so I can locally edit and try out plugins before publishing?

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Question by Joshua: How do I copy my WordPress blog onto my computer so I can locally edit and try out plugins before publishing?
My website is on a remote server, I have copied all the files from their remote host server. How do I now configure MAMP to see this as a local copy of wordpress so I can edit it and try out different themes.
Please help. I am pulling my hair out!

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Answer by Kate Nelson
If you have download your database (NOTE:Be careful working with database, unless you know what you are doing), then you open this database file, and find, your real online blog’s URL.

Then replace that URL with your localhost blog address.

Save it and apply to the local host database.

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  2. I like to develop my sites first on my localhost and then upload to my server but the same procedure should apply both ways:

    1. Open your phpMyAdmin of your localhost;
    2. Click on your database name on the left sidebar;
    3. click on “export” tab;
    4. Check the “Add drop table” and the “save as file”.
    5. Click “go” on the far right and save to your computer.
    6. open the file in a text editor and replace all occurrences of your site URL with your Localhost dir path.
    9. Import the edited file to your database on your local host with phpMyAdmin.

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