Title: Easy Local Site Author: Simon Blackbourn Published: November 19, 2012 Last modified: August 10, 2020 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/easy-local-site.svg) # Easy Local Site By [Simon Blackbourn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lumpysimon/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/easy-local-site.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-local-site/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-local-site/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-local-site/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-local-site/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-local-site/) ## Description When working on a local site and a production site at the same time, things can easily get confusing and you forget which site you’re looking at. This plugin adds a hard-to-miss, bright orange reminder to the toolbar and prepends [LOCAL] to the title tag on your local site. If you’ve imported a database from a production site, you may also want to avoid sending emails out to real users. This plugin overrides the ‘to’ address of all outgoing emails, sending them instead to an address specified by you. This enables you to test contact forms, notifications or any other outgoing email communications. All emails will have the original recipient’s email address prepended to the subject line so you can see at a glance who they were originally intended for. #### The WP_LOCAL_DEV constant method You must use the WP_LOCAL_DEV constant method as outlined by Mark Jaquith: [markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/wordpress-local-dev-tips](http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/wordpress-local-dev-tips/) If the WP_LOCAL_DEV constant is not defined this plugin will do nothing. This means you can safely put it in your mu-plugins folder and include it in your Git repository on a production site. ## Installation To install directly from your WordPress dashboard: 1. Go to the _Plugins_ menu and click _Add New_. 2. Search for _Easy Local Site_. 3. Click _Install Now_ next to the Easy Local Site plugin. 4. Activate the plugin. Alternatively, see the official WordPress Codex guide to [Manually Installing Plugins](https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation). #### Using the mu-plugins folder is better Ideally you should install Easy Local Site in wp-content/mu-plugins (plugins in here are ‘Must Use’ and are automatically activated). This will mean that it is always activated, even after migrating a database from a production site where the plugin is not installed/activated, so you don’t have to remember to manually activate it. #### The WP_LOCAL_DEV constant method You must use the WP_LOCAL_DEV constant method as outlined by Mark Jaquith: [markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/wordpress-local-dev-tips](http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/wordpress-local-dev-tips/) If the WP_LOCAL_DEV constant is not defined this plugin will do nothing. This means you can safely put it in your mu-plugins folder and include it in your Git repository on a production site. #### Overriding outgoing emails To override outgoing emails, you must define WP_LOCAL_EMAIL in local-config.php as follows: define( ‘WP_LOCAL_EMAIL’, ‘me@myemailaddress.com’ ); #### Download from GitHub You can also download this plugin from GitHub at [https://github.com/lumpysimon/wp-easy-local-site](https://github.com/lumpysimon/wp-easy-local-site) ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/08ec71f18b939321313c3c7aeae85d924ad1d832ddd09d48c377e38f196077e4? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Never mistake live site for the test site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/never-mistake-live-site-for-the-test-site-2/)󠁿 [carlfj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/carlfj/) February 7, 2017 Ever made a change during development or testing content on a website, believing you are just testing you local site but in fact you just changed the live site instead? Or vice versa. With this plugin you get used to the red rectangle with the lettering Local site and the [Local site] prefix in the title bar. It could be a bit more clear that the emails are only redirected when the WP_LOCAL_EMAIL variable is set: define( 'WP_LOCAL_EMAIL', 'me@example.com' ); [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-local-site/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Easy Local Site” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Simon Blackbourn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lumpysimon/) [Translate “Easy Local Site” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/easy-local-site) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-local-site/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/easy-local-site/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/easy-local-site/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/easy-local-site/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.3 * Use WP_LOCAL_EMAIL constant for email address (for easier use by teams in a version- controlled environment) * Prepare for localisation. * Add PHPDoc comments #### 0.2 * Add email overriding #### 0.1 * Initial release ## Meta * Version **0.3** * Last updated **6 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.5.18** * Tags * [developer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/developer/)[development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/development/) [local](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/local/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-local-site/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-local-site/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-local-site/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-local-site/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-local-site/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-local-site/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-local-site/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-local-site/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Simon Blackbourn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lumpysimon/) ## Support Got something to say? 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