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24January 2021

WordPress for Windows Development Guide with WSL

Web development , PHP

Several days ago I decided to install WSL on my Windows 10 computer. In this guide I explain the whole process of migration from XAMPP to WSL.

18May 2021

Importing a Linux distro into WSL from a file in Windows 10

Web development

As we have already seen, you can make a backup of your Linux distro in WSL. Now let's see how you can import a Linux distro into WSL from a tar file containing the filesystem backup, which in practice allows you to import any distro you want, with the [...]

28April 2021

How to back up a Linux distro in WSL

Web development

If you have been using WSL to run a Linux virtual machine on your Windows 10/11 computer, then you will know that it is a good idea to make a backup of your distro in case you might need it in the future if something goes wrong. Luckily, Windows allows us to do this backup of [...]

04March 2021

The online brain drain is a fact

General

With the advent of the pandemic and the normalization of telecommuting, it is no longer necessary to move to work with foreign companies. The online brain drain is a fact.

21February 2021

WordPress Development for Windows with WSL (part 4): Git, PHPStorm, xDebug and WP-CLI Integration

Web development , PHP

If you've made it this far, you've already completed part 3 of the WordPress for Windows with WSL development guide. If you haven't, you're already late. At this point we already have our Apache server with its PHP and database server up and running, and we've already [...]

21February 2021

WordPress Development for Windows with WSL (part 3): Migrating a WordPress site from WAMP/XAMPP to Ubuntu on WSL

Web development , PHP

If you've made it this far, you've already completed the first two chapters of the WordPress for Windows development guide with WSL. If you haven't, you're running late. Let's take a recap of where we are now: We have WSL up and running We have installed an Apache server with PHP and [...]

14February 2021

WordPress Development for Windows with WSL (part 2): Installing the LAMP Stack

Web development , PHP

If you've made it this far, you've already completed part 1 of the WordPress for Windows with WSL development guide. If you haven't done it yet, you're already late. Once all the WSL stuff is up and running, then it's time to install your development environment. In my case, [...]

07February 2021

WordPress Development for Windows with WSL (part 1): Installing WSL

Web development , PHP

Well, if you are reading this is that you are interested in using WSL to develop PHP-based applications like WordPress on your Windows 10 computer, so I'm not going to dawdle anymore and I'm going to get down to business: Step 1: Enable WSL As it happens with all Windows features that aren't [...]

25November 2018