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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Customizing WordPress Themes How to Make Child Themes

Ivy W.
Ivy W.
7,427 Points
Posted by Ivy W.
Ivy W.
7,427 Points

Should I already be working with WordPress locally before creating a child theme?

Hi,

I'm a bit confused about the child themes section of the 'How to make a website with WordPress' course - it looks like at this point Zac is developing locally, but I know the next course in the track talks about local development with MAMP, and there's another course that discussed how to use DesktopServer to develop locally. I already have a website set up using the 1-click install with my hosting provider, but I'm trying to understand if I should be working locally to create child themes (and using local development for the remainder of the course).

Everything I've seen so far points to yes, but seeing as the local development course comes after this one, I was confused at first. Basically I'm trying to figure out if the best way to go about making a child theme is:

1) Create website w/hosting company 2) Import my live website to DesktopServer (probably using Duplicator here:https://serverpress.com/using-duplicator-to-import-a-live-website/). 3) Start working locally, including making child themes 4) Export everything to the main website later

I know this is a lot of information, so any help would be appreciated!

2 Answers

ALBERT QERIMI
ALBERT QERIMI
49,872 Points
ALBERT QERIMI
ALBERT QERIMI
49,872 Points

You have to work locally to test your work before making it public this is what beginners do you cant just make changes to your site before view or testing it i'm talking for beginners always

Ivy W.
Ivy W.
7,427 Points
Ivy W.
Ivy W.
7,427 Points

Oops, it looks like the answer was in the extra credit for the first section: "Purchase your own domain name, either for a real or fictitious site and practice installing WordPress with an installation script. Then figure out how to delete that WordPress install using the same script software. Finally try installing WordPress manually."

I'm assuming the purpose is to get familiar w/installing manually and the 1-click (and eventually move onto local development), so I've contacted my hosting provider for the next steps.