Most people run a local version of Apache, MySQL and WP on top it for making theme modifications without affecting their main site.
Additionally, the same people usually also run testblogs on their webhosts to see their work in action before finally deploying it on their main sites.
There are more than enough offline blogging tools, W.Bloggar, ECTO, Zempft, Performance comes to mind that handle all the blogging functionailty.
So what’s the value add in taking a PHP based application stand-alone?
REgards
Thread Starter
Kahil
(@kahil)
i just thought that it would be a nice tool for people who don’t know how to run apache, mysql and wp locally. just a simple program that you can do all the things in wp. it would just make it easy for new people who don’t know the codes or syntax. i’m not new, but i’m no expert neither and even i would like and use something like that. something that is very visual where you can drag and drop things, where when you want to insert an image you can see the image right there as you write and you can add all the classes you want, etc…
for people who don’t know how to run apache, mysql and wp locally
I don’t know either… I just installed XAMPP – and it does everything for me without knowing what’s going on in the back stage 😉
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Thread Starter
Kahil
(@kahil)
yeah… i was just thinking of the convenience factor… something that does all that (maybe even with a FTP feature in it) would/could only help to get the wp name out there…lol
If WP would do all that for the “convenience factor” – it would be a MS product 😉
(and I’d stop offering any help around here)
