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WordPress Portable Alternatives
WordPress Portable is described as 'Free program for Windows that automatically ships with everything needed to run WordPress locally. All you need to do is to extract the package contents on your system after download and start the WordPress Portable executable afterwards' and is an app in the social & communications category. There are more than 10 alternatives to WordPress Portable for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, MySQL Community Edition and PHP apps. The best WordPress Portable alternative is WordPress Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WordPress Portable are Local by Flywheel, Laravel Valet, Laravel Herd and Nitro Server.
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17 Local by Flywheel alternativesProvides a simple, local development environment with a friendly GUI. Uses Docker under the hood, similar to Vagrant but less tech experience needed.
Valet is a Laravel development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, no hosts file. You can even share your sites publicly using local tunnels. Yeah, we like it too.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Laravel
50 Laravel Herd alternativesHerd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, dnsmasq and Node.js.
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Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, or any other server software on your local machine.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- PHP
- MySQL Community Edition
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- memcached
- Node.JS
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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InstantWP is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. It will turn almost any Windows or macOS machine into a WordPress development server. It will even run from a USB key.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- MySQL Community Edition
- Apache HTTP Server
- PHP
- Wordpress
Pressmatic is a robust local WordPress manager for Mac. All sites are isolated in individual Docker containers.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
1ClickWP is a powerful open-source tool that allows you to effortlessly create WordPress sites with just a single click. Whether you need a single WordPress site or a multisite network, 1ClickWP has got you covered.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Laravel Sail is a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel's default Docker development environment. Sail provides a great starting point for building a Laravel application using PHP, MySQL, and Redis without requiring prior Docker experience.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- PHP
- MySQL Community Edition
- Redis
- Docker
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