= How do I develop a website using elementor and wordpress without having to pay for hosting? =

Hosting prices seem to come out at £9.99 a month or something cheap which results to £40 yearly. But my question is, if I want to make a website for myself or someone I cant make the website first THEN pay to host it, I have to pay for hosting and then make it??
Im used to making sites in VS code, where I just refresh the html file to see changes and dont have to pay anything to create something so I am kind of confused why there is no way to develop websites offline with wordpress and elementor and Im guessing its just another modern age tactic to get as much money out of the user when its not neccessary
Im trying to explore elementor and wordpress because they seem to leave hand coded websites in the dust with the amount of features they provide that would take weeks to code myself
You seem to be a bit misinformed. There is lots of ways to do this locally without paying anything. You basiclly just install a web server with PHP and a database, lots of tools out there made for this purpose. I use MAMP on macOS if i need to do something like this, but a simple Google search will provide you with a ton of guides about setting this up on every OS. Personally i would prefer to stay clear of something like Elementor, its a fast and easy way to put something together if you have no coding experience, but you will almost certainly get a better and more optimized result by coding it yourself

Not all that you should pay $10 per month or over $30 a year on a discount. Ionos offers a promotional first year of $0.50 its worth checking out httpaklam.io/uPDiHj
If you want to work with WordPress then Flywheel’s free WPLocal (a.k.a. Local by Flywheel) gives you a full, pretty flexible desktop environment. It handles installation, permissions, SQL, even a local SSL certificate. Even better, you can quickly clone sites for destruction experimentation or testing

You can then export the site via a backup plugin and install it on a live site when you’re ready

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I’m going to gently push back in the coat of hosting though. While there are options like Ionos’s fifty cent deal you’re going to get what you pay for


If you don’t mind moving your site once a year there are also plenty of too-good-to-be-true signup deals. But in my experience supporting 100+ maintenance clients who all have their own hosting… eh, cheap hosting means more support calls and terrible performance

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