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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WP Sandbox
Let your customers try your WordPress solutions in a customized sandbox before they buy. Front-end and back-end, fully customizable. Perfect for WordPress developers, designers, & agencies who want to let clients explore fully-functioning backend demos of their work. We’re loved by customer support teams who need to quickly diagnose issues and share their findings with the rest of the team with a simple reusable link. Give your customers access to full WordPress sandbox demo sites — pre-installed with your plugins and themes, and customized with your settings. Create full WordPress sites, complete with front-end and secure back-end access with one easy link.
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InstaWP
InstaWP is a cloud-based WordPress development platform that enables users to launch instant WordPress sites without setup time. These are standard WordPress sites where users can install any plugin or theme, add content, and access, preview, and customize their websites. InstaWP offers features such as staging, templates, configurations, commands, Git integration, connects, hosting, WaaS (Website as a Service), and site management. It is designed for designers, developers, hosting companies, business owners, and others who work with WordPress daily. With InstaWP, users can build WordPress sites with powerful tools, save blueprints for reuse and monetization, save default values used to spin up sites, run CLI commands remotely without SSH, manage live sites and create staging sites, manage hosting accounts and create sites, and migrate WordPress sites to new hosts. InstaWP also offers workflows such as 2-way sync, automate QA, create recurring revenue, create staging, etc.
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HostlessWP
HostlessWP is a free, open-source command-line tool for deploying an existing WordPress site to Cloudflare Workers. It runs PHP 8.3 as WebAssembly while keeping the site's MySQL database, accessed through Cloudflare Hyperdrive or a Cloudflare Tunnel. WordPress core, themes, and plugins are packaged without modifying the source site; media can be stored in Cloudflare R2 or another S3-compatible bucket. A read-only setup check compares active plugins with a tested compatibility list, then deploys a copy to a test address before the owner switches the domain. The 30 most-installed WordPress.org plugins load at page level, and a WooCommerce checkout has been tested end to end. HostlessWP is for WordPress site owners and developers and requires Node.js 20 or newer, a Cloudflare account, MySQL, and an S3-compatible bucket. This early-preview software is licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later and does not yet support multisite or plugin installation from the deployed admin.
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