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Building a WordPress Sandbox
Joe Querin @joequerinhttp://www.joequerin.com
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About Me• Graphic Design major• Self taught Web Developer for 19+
years • Current work full-time at Lorain County
Community College for 17+ years.• WordPress experience last 5 years • Built 8+ themes • Migrated 4 complete sites to
WordPress, built from scratch many more.
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Why Build a Sandbox?• What is a WordPress Sandbox?• What are the benefits of a sandbox?• What options are there for a sandbox?
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What is a WordPress Sandbox?
• Protected environment• Separated from your production
environment.• Possibly a shared space, generally
just for you.
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Benefits of a WordPress Sandbox
• Test themes• Test plugins• Test updates• Try functionality
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WordPress Sandbox• Local Web Server – (Windows IIS)• WAMP or MAMP• Desktop Server from ServerPress
WP Site Sync – Content Transfer
• VVV – Varying Vagrant Vagrants
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Cons• WAMP/MAMP – Resource Intensive,
Cost• Desktop Server – Minor Cost• VVV – Can be intimidating, confusing.
This past spring, we taught 3 art students, VVVTwo MBPs, one Surface Book
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Pros• WAMP/MAMP – Easy for a non-
technical person to install, use.• Desktop Server – Easy to use,
optimized for WordPress.• VVV – Closest dev environment to a
production environment.
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Where to find the tools
• WAMP – http://www.wampserver.com/en/• MAMP – https://www.mamp.info/en/• Desktop Server - https://serverpress.com/• VVV - https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-
Vagrants/VVV
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QuestionsJoe QuerinTwitter: @joequerinWeb: http://www.joequerin.com