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Flywheel + Local

Our WordPress hosting provider, and local WordPress development

Our primary WordPress hosting provider is Flywheel. We have an organisation plan which allows us to host hundreds of WordPress sites, managed in an easy-to-use dashboard.

Local is a desktop app which provides a development environment for WordPress sites, and was developed by Flywheel. It has useful 'sync' functionality, allowing you to push/pull files and the database between Local and a Flywheel site.

Local Sync

Feel free to use Local Sync to deploy your WordPress site to Flywheel during the initial stages of development, however it's recommended that you use Github Actions to automate code deployment.

Pulling from Flywheel to Local is also a great way to pull down a site to work on it locally β€”Β just don't forget to re-clone the theme folder so that it's correctly linked to Git.