What a terrible review. I use it for local projects all the time. It works great with WAMP / MAMP.
I think this famous quote applies to the reviewer in this case …
Because, this plugin does do what they say it doesn’t do …
“it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to talk and remove all doubt.”
– attributed to Mark Twain (as well as many others, including Abraham Lincoln and Confucius)
In other words, STFU unless you know what you’re talking about …
Duplicator is one of my favourite plugins. Lest others be mislead by this Review thread, the authors do support Duplicator in a local environment; they just don’t help people set up the local environment.
While we would love to teach everyone how to setup and configure a local web server, we just don’t have the bandwidth for this type of free help. Basic support does not include help with setting/configuring a web server or development environment. Because these types of issues have consumed so much time in the past we can no longer provide the time and resources. We do apologize for this, but its just not feasible at this point in time.
Below are some resources that will get you started. If you’re having trouble getting your local environment setups please use the general WordPress forums to ask your question(s). If you receive errors from the Duplicator on your local development box please feel free to submit a ticket here and we will try to help or at least steer you in the right direction.
Below are some very helpful links that will help you get going with custom development environments. You can also hire very affordable technical staff from the Duplicator Resource page. These IT pros can help you isolate and pin-point your issues very quickly and very affordable.
OMGosh yes. I use this locally all the time and have for a year now – months before the OP gave his 1-star rating. I use it to make frequent backups of my local XAMPP running on a USB thumb drive and from time to time I use it to move sites from local to a WWW address and from a WWW address to local. This is a fantastic plugin and is among my list of required ones I never start a new site without.
I use this plugin locally (XAMPP) with great success as well. Issue is likely user/reviewer related.
