Title: Duplicate private development site
Last modified: June 30, 2017

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# Duplicate private development site

 *  [eyeghoti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyeghoti/)
 * (@eyeghoti)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-private-development-site/)
 * I am redesigning a site on a loaclhost, but it would be more convenient for me
   to have that online, primarily so I can show other people what it will look like.
 * Is there an easy way to do this?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-private-development-site/#post-9277592)
 * The only way you can make a site visible to random people is to install WordPress
   online somewhere – perhaps in a sub-folder of a domain/site you already own. 
   You can then upload any theme changes from localhost as – and when – you want
   to.
 *  Thread Starter [eyeghoti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyeghoti/)
 * (@eyeghoti)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-private-development-site/#post-9279427)
 * I was assuming that was possible, but I’m not sure how that would work in practice?
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-private-development-site/#post-9280112)
 * You end up with two different sites, local and public. The DB content does not
   need to match as long as the content is representative of what your plugin or
   theme needs. Continue to work locally. When you’ve accomplished the most recent
   task, upload your files via FTP to the public server to bring it up to date. 
   You can then get feedback from others who can access the public site.
 * Of course, plugins and themes can also be used on any other WP site as well by
   uploading the files via FTP or the host’s file manager app. It’s important to
   stay organized or you will lose version control. Don’t do quickie changes to 
   the public version, only change locally, then upload. Keep incremental backups
   in case you need to revert to a previous version.

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 * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/)
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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-private-development-site/#post-9280112)
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