Having your wordpress site in your local PC will serve as a backup for the site. It also enable you to test new features in it before implemented in the production site.
Following are some steps for performing this task.
1. Using phpMyAdmin, export the database of your site. Replace the URL of original site to new URL in the exported SQL file.
2. Copy the whole wordpress directory of your site to local directory. Normally it is at:
c:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress
3. In your local server, create a new database to be used by the site. If possible, use the same database name as in your production server. You may like to refer to wp-config.php for information of the user ID & password. Configure uers access to the database using “Privileges” function of phpMyAdmin.
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