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WordPress Homework Exercise: Development Environment Installation

On your home computer (Mac or Windows), download and install a testing environment.

If you want to use exactly the same setup as we do in class, download MAMP. It is available for Mac and Windows.

MAMP is quite reliable, particularly on Mac. On Windows, it’s less reliable. If you have trouble with it, try using WAMPServer.

LinkedIn Leaning has video courses on installing and setting up MAMP, but it currently isn’t hosting the WAMPServer video that used to be on Lynda.com (which LinkedIn bought about a year ago).

Another option (which is available for Mac and Windows) is LocalByFlywheel. LinkedIn Learning does have a video course for Local.

If you are running Linux, MAMP is not available for you. For that reason, you will need to investigate other solutions. These could include XAMPP, AAMPS, or (presumably) other solutions I’m not aware of.

Whichever AMP software you choose, your task here is to set up a working development environment on your own computer (ie not a lab one).

In that installation, redo (or do, if you haven’t done it yet) WordPress Basics Lab Review exercise.

When you’ve finished, take full-size screen shots of the exercise site’s home page and british columbia single-post view. Hand those in by the start of the next class in a folder called assignment1-canada-yourname.

You can do the full-page screenshot with the Chrome Developer Tools: google how.

The Firefox Developer Edition browser has an even better full-page screenshot utility, incidentally.