3 Ways to TEST WordPress WITHOUT Paying for Hosting

Key Takeaways

Three ways to test out WordPress without paying for hosting. The first is WordPress playground. This is the URL. I'll link it in the description and also in the pin comment. It's a cloud-based solution. So, just go to the URL. It'll set up a demo website for you and you can log into the back end and check out things from the front end. The next couple of solutions will help you build a website on your computer and host it temporarily. The first one is local. You can download it for free. It's available for Windows and Mac. And the official version from WordPress itself is called WordPress Studio. It's well for Mac and Windows, similar to how local works. The third one is called demo.new. And you'll see the URL is quite different. So let me explain what it does. Demo.new not only gives access to WordPress but also selected plugins that you can test out. You can see here the URL mentions sugar calendar events because this particular setup will give you access to sugar calendar events. If I go here, I already set up a website. I have access to the admin area and I can also visit the site. And if I go to the actual back end, you can see that I have now access to sugar calendar events apart from WordPress itself. Option number three is quite useful if you want to just test out plugins or see if they're compatible with your existing solutions or if you want to check out that hey if this premium plug-in will work for me. In the description I'll link everything and also all the different plugins supported by demo.new. So, make sure to check it out and follow me for more website building advice.