Title: How / where to develope before launch
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# How / where to develope before launch

 *  [LinkCreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkcreative/)
 * (@linkcreative)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-where-to-develope-before-launch/)
 * So I have done a WP site before and I think what I did was develop it on one 
   domain I had before migrating it to the final main domain I wanted it to be on
   at Launch.. Is there an easier way to do that? I know it has to be online or 
   on a database / etc to be able to see it and develope it but am I making that
   harder than it should be?

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 *  [Andrew Bartel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew-bartel/)
 * (@andrew-bartel)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-where-to-develope-before-launch/#post-3153878)
 * Nope that’s the way to do it (or locally). Check out [WP Migrate DB](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-migrate-db/).
   It will run a find and replace on the db for you when you change domains. Just
   don’t use absolute links in your code so that it migrates smoothly. Use home_url,
   plugins_url, etc instead of relative thinks though.
 *  Thread Starter [LinkCreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkcreative/)
 * (@linkcreative)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-where-to-develope-before-launch/#post-3153896)
 * Thanks. How do you do it locally though.. doesnt it need a database to display
   correctly etc? Im not sure what you mean about the links thing either. give me
   an example of a relative link maybe that will help me understand.
 *  Thread Starter [LinkCreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkcreative/)
 * (@linkcreative)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-where-to-develope-before-launch/#post-3153903)
 * it was shared with me on another forum 2 other methods..
 * XAMPP(windows) or MAMP(mac) is simply a local server that allows to work, well,
   locally 🙂
 * OR an under construction pluggin by Jeremy Messel that puts up a default under
   construction page for you as you work online or you can even do your own custom
   HTML one. I think Ill do the plugin.
 *  [Andrew Bartel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew-bartel/)
 * (@andrew-bartel)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-where-to-develope-before-launch/#post-3153905)
 * I really prefer to do things locally, but not everyone has a server in the next
   room or the computing power to run XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP. Check out [WP Maintenance Mode](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-maintenance-mode/)
   for keeping a site from being publicly available. Also don’t forget to set the
   option under Settings > Privacy to ask search engines not to index your site 
   while you’re developing. Bing and google both respect this, which is pretty much
   all anyone uses. Happy coding!

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