Before You Run WordPress on XAMPP
You may think that there is nothing easier than installing WordPress on you local machine with XAMPP, and in most cases you will be right. However there are some instances when you have to bring in someone else's code to your WordPress and all of the sudden all hell breaks loose.
Here some things that I came around that definitely annoyed hell out of me and waisted good chunk of my time.
Using Third Party Themes
Obviously in most cases developers know using short open tags may cause a incompatibility down the road and avoid them; however, if you see php code mixed with html on your page this is may be the case. By default short_open_tag is set to OFF in XAMPP installation, so you have to turn it on. Just look for "short_open_tag" in php.ini (usually located in: c:/xampp/php/php.ini). Once you found one that is sett to "off" change it to "on" and restart your Apache server.</p
cUrl does not work
Yes, some themes make use of web services and rely on php_curl. Again XAMPP comes with php_curl turned off so you wpuld have to enable it in php.ini. Just look for php_curl and uncomment it. Save and restart server.
Got One?
If you have any other issues feel free to list them in comments.
