Running WordPress Locally on Android (Without Losing Sanity)
The Beginning There are two types of people in the world: those who spin up WordPress with a click on cPanel, and those who see a mountain and climb it anyway. Guess which one I am? This story begins with me, a solar-powered, Android-based dev-in-progress with a Samsung phone, a Lenovo tablet, and a fever dream. My dream was to run full WordPress locally without touching a laptop. This happened because earlier I watched a YouTube tutorial for custom WordPress theme creation and I was bummed about not having access to a PC to try it out. The guy suggested Local and XAMPP, and I snorted because I already knew what I’d be attempting later that day. Termux ? Installed. Acode ? Bless its dear tabs. Sanity? Fragile. On y va! (What? I did French in school.) Regret At some point, I did ask myself, “Should I even be doing this thing?” But by then I had already installed Apache, PHP, and MariaDB inside Termux. Literally no one turns back after a 500MB-ish update. The Port of Eterna...