![]() They do say if you want to use another host to let them know. I imagine if I wasn’t a Flywheel/WPEngine customer on a paid service I might be a bit more upset. This makes sense from a marketing perspective, and for a free product adverts are the cost. Also several interesting features are very tightly locked down to just their services, this includes the ability to deploy to a remote host. Unfortunately, so have a marketing team, and it’s safe to say if you are not a Flywheel or WPEngine (Flywheel parent company) customer they will not stop hounding you till you are. ![]() The App is pretty it’s clear a design team has taken several passes. The Local team have made the choice to allow addons (more on this later) meaning it’s quite hackable. Local sites are managed through the Local App which is an Electron App. They have done away with containers and generally this is a positive thing. Lighting, their codename for their latest version, runs natively. I looked at their previous version, which used Docker to containerise, and it was pretty but you could tell the developers had been on a learning exercise with Docker. I have been using Local Lightning on MacOS. It’s been an interesting journey, one where I have learnt a lot about Electron apps along the way. However, having solved the issue I thought it might be interesting to see if I could run my local development with Local. I was quite taken but boy those first few steps were frustrating. He was using Local Lightning and having exhausted most routes I decided to download Local and see if I could see what they were doing differently to us. So back in March/April I was helping to debug a problem where something wasn’t running correctly on our hosting but was in the client’s local environment. Ask me 5 years ago should you use XAMPP or MAMP and I would have told you “no”, now I say use what works for you, just be aware the results might be different. While a strong believer, I have been mellowing that thought, and if you are not running weird modules or unusual setups, differences will not affect running code. That said there are always differences, even two sites on the same container can have quirky differences. I am a strong believer that your testing environment should be as close in terms of setup as your live environment. I use the same vagrant template when testing and experimenting with new features for the Hosting Platform. For my personal site, I use a vagrant install with a duplicate copy of the Managed WordPress Hosting containers. I’m quite happy spinning up a vagrant box for doing local development and I work for a hosting company so when it comes to spinning up areas to experiment with I have that covered. Uninstall XAMPP, throw out MAMP and toss WAMP into the shredder, Local is the only option you should be considering for local WordPress development in 2021 (and beyond).I know my way around computers, I think that’s a fair statement, my machine has Virtual Machines and docker instances running. I would pay money for this kind of app, but I am grateful that it is free. What blows my mind is Local is completely free and their paid features are not crucial things that most developers need when running WordPress locally. This allows you to choose what sites have what environments.įurthermore, the site creation process even supports WordPress Multisite, allowing you to deploy a new fresh installation of WordPress without the headaches of creating databases, configuring your site and editing any files. Instead, you open up the app, create a new site, choose your PHP version, the server you want (Nginx or Apache), and the database. ![]() One of the most interesting things about Local that makes it stand out from the pack is that unlike XAMPP and other options, there is no installer process. Support for addons and allowing developers to write their own addons for Local.Deploy your sites to Flywheel or WP Engine.Hot-swap PHP versions, allowing you to test your site on different versions of PHP.It’s 100% free (they have a pro plan, but it doesn’t offer anything that you need to pay for).What makes Local one of the best options around for WordPress development is: It’s called Local, and it’s the best way to develop WordPress sites locally. I will recommend an option that isn’t any of the above, it’s one you might not even be familiar with, but spoiler alert: it’s the best. ![]() You have the tried and tested XAMPP, WAMP, MAMP and if you’re feeling adventurous: Docker. When it comes to developing on WordPress locally, you have a few options.
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