Meetup Notes April 11, 2017

Easy

ServerPress

• Homepage: https://serverpress.com/
• Support information: http://docs.serverpress.com/
• Deploy with plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/desktopserver/
• Free (3 sites) or Premium ($99 per year)
• Mac and Windows

Local by Flywheel

https://local.getflywheel.com/

Medium

Local experience is similar so ServerPress, but without the integrated deployment.

MAMP

• Homepage: https://www.mamp.info/en/
• Docs: https://www.mamp.info/en/documentation/
• Free or Pro $59
• Mac or Windows
• Walkthrough deployment is here: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-wordpress-from-local-server-to-live-site/

WAMP (aka WampServer)

• Homepage: http://www.wampserver.com/en/
• Windows

XAMPP

• Homepage: https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
• Mac, Windows, Linux

Advanced

Require familiarity with the command line and git.

Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)

Installing VVV

Chassis

• http://beta.chassis.io/
• Support information: http://docs.chassis.io/en/latest/
• Still in Beta, Free
• No release builds are available yet, but looks to be simpler than VVV when built