Thank you. After doing a bootcamp, and applying to 1000's of jobs this past year...I'm going to pivot and start my own website dev company, making wordpress sites for clients and I'm trying to figure out where to set up my local development. Your video was super helpful. Do you think I should use wordpress/env? Would I also need Local?
I just tried it on PC. Tried to import an all-in-one wp migration file with proper search/replace and it failed. going back to local. this did seem much lighter but it also seemed slower as well like it's not allocating enough resources.
Yeah I don't believe that Studio exposes any sort of GUI to browse the database. I'm wondering if you could determine the credentials and use a tool like Tableplus to browse it 🤔?
Hi, I'm really new to this. One quick question: can Local WP provide Live Demo like Studio WP? Or is there a workaround to make it so in Local WP? Many thanks in advance 🙏🏻
LocalWP has a few options - one is called "Live Links" which lets you share your local site across the internet. But your computer has to be turned on and the feature has to be running for people to see it, so it's only good for short-term demos. LocalWP also has great integration with WP Engine, so you can also push a local site to a WP Engine staging environment and share it that way.
Thank you, Brian. I appreciate the unbiased review of this new tool. As you said, this seems to be for someone who is mostly wanting to create a personal site for maybe a blog. I'll stick with Local.
I know its not exactly to WordPress, but what about "Valet / Herd", for me is the local eviroment i use to anything related to web development, easy to install, (Mac / Win / Linux) almost no GUI, and you can make every site use any version of PHP / Node (or whatever) multiple kind of database / cache etc, to mirror your Production Site. I think is the way, but i really wanna know your opinion
I think in my first (deleted) draft of this video I mentioned Herd which is another great example of just a super lean tool to run PHP. I use Herd (plus DBngin) for Laravel and typically use Docker for WordPress, but I think one of my coworkers has been successfully using Herd for WordPress recently.
@BrianCoords Herd/Valet has drivers for most of the big PHP "apps." It's basically like a pseudo-docker, without using Docker (I don't really know the technical term, lol). So, you can run different PHP and database setups in a directory with automatic domain and SSL-it's really nice. (I never really understood Docker, but that's my fault, I know.) You can use wp-cli or download a zip to install WordPress in a directory, and you're good to go with a .test domain. A long time ago, I had a problem with "local," and I lost a client's website (nothing fancy, but it was important). After that, I was looking for something more lightweight, with minimal memory consumption, etc. (Also, for me, opening an app just to open an environment feels a little redundant.) So, thanks for your answer!
Thanks for the video. Currently Studio does not appear to support WordPress multisite networks either, whereas LocalWP does. I agree, I don't think LocalWP will be going anywhere-- It is a fantastic tool. That said, Studio does provide a nice installable UI wrapper for playground, which is great for spinning up a simple site for testing or troubleshooting.
There's a new update coming to multisite that will allow unique ports (8888, 8889, etc). Once that's in core I believe Studio will be able to support a multisite install. But overall I agree 100% - Local for real development work, Studio for simple sites to play around with things.
Thank you. After doing a bootcamp, and applying to 1000's of jobs this past year...I'm going to pivot and start my own website dev company, making wordpress sites for clients and I'm trying to figure out where to set up my local development. Your video was super helpful. Do you think I should use wordpress/env? Would I also need Local?
I think Local is the best place to start for sure. It's very easy to install and get running, very easy to import/export sites. I would start there.
Many thanks, very well explained!
You are welcome!
I just tried it on PC. Tried to import an all-in-one wp migration file with proper search/replace and it failed. going back to local. this did seem much lighter but it also seemed slower as well like it's not allocating enough resources.
Yeah it's still in it's early days and has some compatibility work to do. It's quick with lighter sites, slower otherwise.
Hi Bryan, thanks for sharing. I have one question: I don't see the option in Studio to view the database like Local does.
Yeah I don't believe that Studio exposes any sort of GUI to browse the database. I'm wondering if you could determine the credentials and use a tool like Tableplus to browse it 🤔?
@@BrianCoords Thanks😁
Hi, I'm really new to this. One quick question: can Local WP provide Live Demo like Studio WP? Or is there a workaround to make it so in Local WP? Many thanks in advance 🙏🏻
LocalWP has a few options - one is called "Live Links" which lets you share your local site across the internet. But your computer has to be turned on and the feature has to be running for people to see it, so it's only good for short-term demos.
LocalWP also has great integration with WP Engine, so you can also push a local site to a WP Engine staging environment and share it that way.
@@BrianCoords thank you for your answer, I will delve into staging with WP Engine then...
Any hints or clues I should be ready for?
Thank you, Brian. I appreciate the unbiased review of this new tool. As you said, this seems to be for someone who is mostly wanting to create a personal site for maybe a blog. I'll stick with Local.
Agreed - if you're doing any dev work, Local or wp/env is the way to go.
Thanks, Brian. It's also important to note that, at the moment, Studio is Mac only.
Yep good point. The Windows version is already in beta, I think, so it shouldn't be too far off. Linux? Don't see it happening any time soon.
I know its not exactly to WordPress, but what about "Valet / Herd", for me is the local eviroment i use to anything related to web development, easy to install, (Mac / Win / Linux) almost no GUI, and you can make every site use any version of PHP / Node (or whatever) multiple kind of database / cache etc, to mirror your Production Site.
I think is the way, but i really wanna know your opinion
I think in my first (deleted) draft of this video I mentioned Herd which is another great example of just a super lean tool to run PHP. I use Herd (plus DBngin) for Laravel and typically use Docker for WordPress, but I think one of my coworkers has been successfully using Herd for WordPress recently.
@BrianCoords Herd/Valet has drivers for most of the big PHP "apps."
It's basically like a pseudo-docker, without using Docker (I don't really know the technical term, lol).
So, you can run different PHP and database setups in a directory with automatic domain and SSL-it's really nice. (I never really understood Docker, but that's my fault, I know.)
You can use wp-cli or download a zip to install WordPress in a directory, and you're good to go with a .test domain.
A long time ago, I had a problem with "local," and I lost a client's website (nothing fancy, but it was important). After that, I was looking for something more lightweight, with minimal memory consumption, etc. (Also, for me, opening an app just to open an environment feels a little redundant.)
So, thanks for your answer!
Great summary 👍
Thanks for the video. Currently Studio does not appear to support WordPress multisite networks either, whereas LocalWP does. I agree, I don't think LocalWP will be going anywhere-- It is a fantastic tool. That said, Studio does provide a nice installable UI wrapper for playground, which is great for spinning up a simple site for testing or troubleshooting.
There's a new update coming to multisite that will allow unique ports (8888, 8889, etc). Once that's in core I believe Studio will be able to support a multisite install.
But overall I agree 100% - Local for real development work, Studio for simple sites to play around with things.
Laravel Herd is a great development environment not only for Laravel but also for Wordpress.
Thanks for your video!