Audience
Agencies, developers or designers who need a free WordPress development suite for local sites
About DevKinsta
Your free local WordPress development suite. Design, develop, and deploy WordPress sites from the comfort of your local machine. DevKinsta is free forever, and available for macOS and Windows. Create local WordPress sites with a single click, and start developing (almost) instantly. Every site you create is automatically configured with Nginx, PHP, and MySQL. DevKinsta also ships with WordPress multisite support plus powerful database and email management tools to streamline your development workflow. DevKinsta makes local site creation and development quick and easy. Spin up a single or Multisite WordPress site with Nginx, MariaDB, and more with a single click. Take advantage of local database and email management tools to develop themes, plugins, and custom sites, all on your local machine. When you’re ready to go live, push your site directly to Kinsta. Launch WordPress sites, including multisites, with a single click!
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$25 per month
Pricing Details:
Billed annually
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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Kinsta
Founded: 2014
United States
kinsta.com/devkinsta/
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