Flywheel localWP too good to be true?

Hello fellow WP developers,

A few days ago, I started to read up on everything recent I could find about flywheel localWP, then installed it, imported and edited a few sites and exported them with the All-in-one-WP-migration plugin to our hosting account. No problem.

Today, I "tested" some more and again, everything worked. Before I "nuke" the local Proxmox server (Turnkey templates no longer working like they used to), I would like to hear from others regarding how reliable localWP is.

Are you all experiencing what I am? My sites are simple blog sites with a contact form and sometimes, a custom plugin. No eCommerce or custom setups.

So far, I can't believe how well this works.
Thank you for sharing your experience.

A big THANK YOU to who ever made this available in the AUR so that it runs on Linux!

11 Comments
  1. Flywheel Local is a great tool and so many people use it outside of Flywheel and WP Engine users, highly recommend.

  2. I’ve always just containerized WP for local development. I’ve generally deployed using containers as well.

  3. I’m not a WPE or Flywheel customer but I’ve used Local for several years now and just export as an updraft plus backup to a fresh WP install on the client’s hosting platform of choice – et voilà! Nary a problem. Super useful tool.

  4. I love it. I’ve been using it since 2019 or so and it saves me a ton of time setting up new environments. I’ve used it since before WP Engine purchased them and have never bothered to set up the automated deployment integration since my clients are scattered across more hosting companies than I care to count.

  5. LocalWP is great, we use it all the time and I run my owned managed WordPress service haha.

  6. Local is great free tool. The online version of that would be insta wp which is good too

  7. I’ve used local for many years.

    I believe they have a free “backup” plugin to put copies of your local sites to a cloud service (Like Google Cloud). Be sure and do this.

    Several years ago I had a freak glitch that deleted an entire client website from local, and I ended up having to use a data recovery tool (it bypassed trash) to recover pieces of it and the database to re-build it.

    Stopped using it for almost a year after that – but that was a long time ago. I’ve used it plenty since then, and not had any issues.

 

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