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This video shows you how to create a portable Wordpress site, capable of running off a USB thumb drive,  in 3 minutes or less. Now you have no excuse for breaking your production website. This application only runs on Windows systems.

  1. Download Wordpress Portable from wordpress-portable.webnode.com.
  2. Unzip to your USB flash drive.
  3. Double-click on WP-Portable.exe.
  4. Open up a web browser and go to localhost or double-click on the Wordpress icon in the taskbar to view your portable Wordpress site.
  5. It behaves like any Wordpress site from there. Default user name: admin. Default password: admin.

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Alternate titles for this video: How to Fake High Definition Video or How to turn a Flip Ultra into a Flip Ultra HD using Camtasia or How to Get Rid of the Vertical Black Boxes in VGA Quality (640 x 480) YouTube Videos.

I originally posted this on my micro-blog: YourGoToGuy.com, but it seems to fit better here as it’s a video.

Have a better way to do this?  Leave your advice in the comments.

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Now that you have a portable Wordpress test site, you need to move over your Wordpress theme, plugins, and all of your content. After following the steps in this video tutorial, you’ll have a fully functioning, portable copy of your blog or site to test out any and all changes which could break your live, production website, such as Wordpress and plug-in updates and theme changes.

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