In short, it’s currently the best way to host a WordPress site locally, quickly. It’s of course brought to us by the super awesome hosting company: Flywheel Hosting (which we highly recommend by the way). It allows you to quickly ‘spin up’ a WordPress install without using a web host. One can use it to just run WordPress locally without going through the hassle of setting up LAMP/LEMP stack manually on their system. What is Local by Flywheel Flywheel Local is the most popular Local Web Development tool for creating WordPress sites. Local is an extremely useful tool for WordPress developers and users alike. This is how you can set up a new WordPress site in mins in Local Other Features of LocalĪpart from local development, Local has some other features too which helps site developers tremendously in their workflow. Alternatively, you can also refer to the screenshots below to configure your new site. Next, you will be presented with some options for your WordPress site. Next, click on Create a new site button in the center of the screen in order to open the new site creation wizard. For this review, I will mostly focus on the local development of a WordPress site by Local. Left panel options are dedicated for different plugins that you can install for Local (this has no relation with WordPress plugins) and there is an option for deploying your site to Flywheel and WP Engine too in the right-hand pane. Here, you will have two panels – left and right. When you will launch local for the first time, you will see a screen similar to the picture shown above. After it’s downloaded, install it with the default options. You don’t need to create an account, but you need to give your email ID in order to download it (I hate this part). You can get the installer for your specific operating system by visiting their website at In order for us to use Local, we need to download it first. In this review, I will give a walkthrough of Local by Flywheel. You can do the opposite too – clone your site from their servers and then work on it locally. If you have your site on compatible hosting (Flywheel and WP Engine at the moment), you can upload your locally developed site to their servers. They have apps available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Just make sure you have a copy of your site files on your local machine before you start, and follow the instructions provided by Flywheel.Local is an easy-to-use WordPress installer which will help you to install WordPress, as the name suggests, locally on your system. Overall, importing your WordPress site to local by Flywheel is a fairly simple process. This file can then be imported into another WordPress site or blog using the WordPress import plugin. You can also use the Import Your WordPress Site button on the Import Your WordPress Site page to export your site to a. Once your site is imported, you’ll be able to access it from the Flywheel platform. Whichever method you choose, Flywheel will walk you through the process of importing your site. You can either use the Import Your WordPress Site button on the Import Your WordPress Site page, or you can use the import wizard that is available in the Flywheel platform. Flywheel offers a few different ways to import your site. Once you have your site files on your local machine, you can import them into Flywheel. If you don’t have a copy of your site files, you can either download them from your WordPress site or use a FTP program to transfer them over. Flywheel doesn’t create a new site from scratch it simply imports your existing site. One important thing to note is that you’ll need to have a copy of your original WordPress site files on your local machine before you can import it. Flywheel will then walk you through the process of importing your site. Once you have an account, you can visit the Import Your WordPress Site page and select your WordPress site. First, you’ll need to create an account with Flywheel. If you’re looking to import your WordPress site to local by Flywheel, there are a few things you’ll need to do first.
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