What is Instant WordPress?
- Instant WordPress is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. It turns any Windows machine into a WordPress development server. It will even run from a USB key.
- Instant WordPress comes complete with it’s own built in Apache web server, PHP and MySQL installations that are started and stopped automatically.
- Instant WordPress comes complete with a set of dummy WordPress posts and pages so that you do not have to create any data or posts to test themes and plugins.
- Instant WordPress is self-configuring, so it should not conflict with any software already running on your machine.
- Instant WordPress can be installed as many times as you wish and deleted by simply removing the folder that it is running from. Nothing is left on your machine.
- Instantt WordPress comes with a portable version of Firefox web browser which has many web development tools installed including the Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug which makes editing CSS an absolute dream.
- Instant WordPress comes with a portable Notepad++ editor for editing PHP, CSS and HTML files. Notepad++ comes complete with many plugins making it a light web development IDE.
- Instant WordPress comes with a built in PHP debugger.
Components
Instant WordPress 3.3 contains the following software:
- WordPress 2.8.6
- Apache/2.2.11 (Win32)
- PHP/5.2.10
- MySQL 5.0.41-community-nt
- Xdebug PHP debugger
- Firefox 3 with the Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug, Colorzilla, Dummy Lipsum, MeasureIT and many other wonderful web developer add-ons
- Notepad++ 5.3.1 with DBGP plugin, Explorer plugin and many other plugins installed
- All dummy WordPress content is courtesy of the nice people at http://wpcandy.com/
Please Note: Instant WordPress is not suitable for live websites
and should only be used for testing and development.
