My local WordPress development setup has been greatly simplified due to my discovery of Laravel Valet. My Macbook Pro hard drive recently failed, which Apple replaced with a new hard drive. So I decided to do a walkthrough setting up MacOS for WordPress development on a clean copy of MacOS High Sierra (v10.13.2). While there are a number of things to install, Valet makes managing local WordPress installs quite magical. Here is list of the commands used or feel free to jump to my video walkthrough below.
  • Download and install iTerm
  • Open iTerm and install Homebrew 
    /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  • brew update
  • brew doctor
  • brew install wget mariadb git mutt
  • Install Composer
    php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;" php composer-setup.php php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
    mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
  • echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
  • source ~/.bash_profile
  • composer global require laravel/valet
  • valet install
  • mkdir ~/Sites && cd ~/Sites
  • mkdir wordpress && cd wordpress
  • valet secure
MacOS WordPress Local Development Setup with HTTPS from scratch
MacOS WordPress Local Development Setup with HTTPS from scratch