What is Local by Flywheel?
Local by Flywheel is a powerful local WordPress development environment for building WordPress sites without needing a web host. It's made by Flywheel, a managed WordPress hosting provider.
With Local, developers can build complete WordPress sites right on their computer. It comes pre-packaged with WordPress, a MySQL database server, PHP, Nginx web server, and other essential components for running WordPress locally.
Some key features and benefits of Local by Flywheel include:
- One-click installation and setup of WordPress instances
- Automatic SSL certificate creation for secure local development
- Live preview with browser sync to see changes in real-time
- Built-in support for popular page builders like Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg
- Shared hosting environment to run multiple local sites
- Seamless migration tools to deploy sites to a live host or Flywheel hosting
With its simplified local WordPress environment, Local by Flywheel aims to improve and speed up development workflows for building WordPress-based sites and applications.