WordPress Workflow and Plugins

[] Workflow and Plugins are topics fresh on mind. That being said, this post is more for my reference than anything else, but I'm sure I'll have a commentary inside of it too.

I am using windows 8, xampp, and web matrix for development.

To setup a new local site here are the steps I use:

1. Create new directory and index.html

2. Update windows host file (127.0.0.…