I would like to have WordPress on my local OS X machine to test out different themes, content, etc and then deploy it on to the production Linux server. I’m using WordPress for my website and blogging will be a secondary thing. What is the best way to do this? Please elaborate on the key steps to create it.
I googled around and people talk of using Git, capistrano, editing something to fix some links, some are just the simple blog type setup on server, etc… all sounded too complicated for the basic blog setup.
I would like to keep user comments when updating production website. Not too worried about loosing my content but would be nice if I didn’t loose it.