It travels across the internet to the physical location of your host to process that request and save your work. When you’re doing this the typical way to a normal web host, it takes a little bit of time for that save to perform. Whether that is saving/publishing within WordPress pages/posts, Divi, Plugin Settings, FTP, etc, there’s a lot saving that is happening to your database or server files. When you are designing/building websites you’re typically doing a lot saving. Short answer: it’s faster to save to your local computer than it is to a web server in a different location. Developing locally saves you a TON of time. There’s a few reasons to develop locally, but the biggest reason is speed. Why Use Local by Flywheel (or any local development tool)? Developing Locally Saves You Time There is a premium version that can be viewed here, however that is not the focus of this tutorial, and most users will not need to upgrade to a paid plan. It allows you to create unlimited local websites. Local by Flywheel is 100% free for the standard version. Your computer essential acts as the web server, but without letting in inbound traffic from the internet (unless you want to allow someone to preview the site such as a client…but we’ll get to that). 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. ![]() From here you will see all the available extensions for install.Flywheel Local is the most popular Local Web Development tool for creating WordPress sites. Navigate on the left sidebar to extensions. ![]() To further improve your development using Local, you can add extensions. You can access the sites database by navigating to the database tab on the Local dashboard and clicking “adminer”.Ĩ. From your dashboard you can view the site by clicking “view site” or enter your WordPress dashboard by clicking “admin”.ħ. Now create your WordPress login and click “add site”, this will create your site files in your chosen directory.Ħ. You then choose your environment, for most cases just select preferred as it is the default, but in this example we will choose custom to allow us to setup our extensions.ĥ. You can change the directory or domain by clicking “advanced options”.Ĥ. Create a name for your site, this will be saved in a folder called Local Sites on your computer. ![]() Launch Local and click “create a new site”.ģ. Navigate to and click free download.Ģ.Setting up a WordPress site with Local by Flywheel Here I will be showing you how to set up your own local WordPress site with Local, and install extensions to improve your workflow. Here at Wibble we use WordPress for all our web design and development projects, so a tool like Local really improves workflow when creating development sites for our clients. Local has tons of free features to use, like SSL protection of local sites with the ability to change your local domain name, hot-swapping environments from different versions of PHP, MySQL and web servers (Appache, Nginx), and with the ability to install add-ons to further improve your sites local development ( list of full features). Local by Flywheel has become the number 1 local WordPress development tool by removing the time needed to install WordPress to pre-existing localhost development tools, giving the developer more time to launch WordPress sites. ![]() Adam has put together a guide on how to set it and configure so you can quickly spin up a WordPress site. In this post we are looking at some research we did into how to improve our development set up and make the process for developing WordPress sites better. Previously, Dean wrote about our new approach to concept creation and prototyping with his blog on How to interact with, create and share a XD prototype. In Wibble, we are always trying to improve and further enhance our development set up for designing and developing websites.
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