Wordup Alternatives
Wordup is described as 'open-source development toolkit for setting up and managing your local WordPress Theme/Plugin development, so that you can totally focus on coding' and is an app in the development category. There are six alternatives to Wordup for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, MySQL Community Edition and Laravel. The best alternative is Local by Flywheel, which is free. Other great apps like Wordup are InstantWP, WordPress Portable, Laravel Valet and Theme Juice.
Provides a simple, local development environment with a friendly GUI. Uses Docker under the hood, similar to Vagrant but less tech experience needed.
- Free • Open Source
- IDE
5 alternatives to InstantWP- Mac
- Windows
- MySQL Community Edition
- Apache HTTP Server
- PHP
- Wordpress
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.
Features
DiscontinuedNo 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).
WordPress Portable is a 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.
Features
DiscontinuedThe project is no longer developed. Last version, 3.5, can be still downloaded from the Box link on the official website
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.
Features
Theme Juice is a powerful Mac app that creates local WordPress sites with just a click.
Pressmatic is a robust local WordPress manager for Mac. All sites are isolated in individual Docker containers.
Features
DiscontinuedPressmatic is now
Local by Flywheel , it was acquired.