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More on WordPress

More on WordPress

Learn what more you can explore if you try WordPress locally.

localhost domain alternative

If you specify the exposed port as 8001 for WordPress, then it will be launched from the localhost domain on port 8001. However, that can be impractical when you’re developing several sites:

  • Your browser may cache files from one site and show them on another.
  • WordPress stores the domain in its database, so you might want to use something similar to the production name.

Optionally, you can configure other domains for development use in your hosts file. ...