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 five alternatives to WordPress Portable for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, MySQL Community Edition and Laravel apps. The best WordPress Portable alternative is Local by Flywheel, which is free. Other great apps like WordPress Portable are InstantWP, Laravel Valet, Theme Juice and Pressmatic.

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Local by Flywheel
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Linux
8 Local by Flywheel alternatives
Provides a simple, local development environment with a friendly GUI. Uses Docker under the hood, similar to Vagrant but less tech experience needed.
- - Local by Flywheel is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to WordPress Portable.
- - Local by Flywheel is the most popular free alternative to WordPress Portable.
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InstantWP
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Free • Open Source
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Mac
Windows
MySQL Community Edition
Apache HTTP Server
PHP
Wordpress
5 InstantWP alternatives
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.
- - InstantWP is the most popular Open Source alternative to WordPress Portable.
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LAMP
Discontinued
No release since 2018. The developer doesn't seem to answer bug reports and issues on GitHub anymore, and the used port (10080) is now blocked by default on modern browsers (see https://github.com/webtoolsgroup/InstantWP/issues/103).
Laravel Valet
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Free • Open Source
IDE
Mac
Laravel
8 Laravel Valet alternatives
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.
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Based on Laravel
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Theme Juice
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
10 Theme Juice alternatives
Theme Juice is a powerful Mac app that creates local WordPress sites with just a click.
- - Theme Juice is the most popular commercial alternative to WordPress Portable.
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Remote Deployment
Database migration
Local server
Pressmatic
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
10 Pressmatic alternatives
Pressmatic is a robust local WordPress manager for Mac. All sites are isolated in individual Docker containers.
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Support for Docker
Nginx
Discontinued
Pressmatic is now Local by Flywheel , it was acquired.