Non Stop Portals

Amazing advances have been made in the last few years in software portability. Now you can run your own copy of Wordpress on a USB memory stick!  Non Stop Portals is recruiting beta testers for our Wordpress on a USB stick implementation.

I need to quickly point out that purpose of running Wordpress on a USB memory stick is for you to have a copy that you can use for training or offline development. Your USB Wordpress site will not appear on the World Wide Web, it's only going to be on the memory stick.

Why would you want to do this?

• You are learning Wordpress and aren't ready to invest in a hosting account to make your site accessible across the Internet.
• You want to have the ability to experiment with your site even when you are not connected to the Internet.
• You want to develop your site content offline and them move it to a production site. Wordpress provides the ability to export your site content from your USB stick and then import it to your production server.
• You are an experienced programmer who wants a test environment to develop new themes and plugins. It is much easier to write PHP code on your local PC and then test it immediately.

How does it work?

Wordpress runs in an Apache, MySQL, and PHP technology stack with one of two operating systems - Windows (WAMP) or Linux (LAMP). Several WAMP implementations have been developed to run on a USB stick. Wordpress will work with several, but we have successfully tested The Uniform Server implementation along with Wordpress.

Once installed, I simply start The Uniform Server and access my Wordpress development site using a localhost address (e.g. http://localhost/wordpress).  Wordpress has built-in export and import tools, making it possible to develop content on my local machine, export it, and then import it back to my production web site.