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Setting Up Your Local Development Environment for WordPress

Posted on Monday November 14th 2022Saturday November 12th 2022 by Automattic

Local dev environments are used to build and test sites, plugins and themes. In this article, you'll learn about several local environments and discover how to set up your own with Docker. ... Read More.

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