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Build WordPress sites faster than ever before

Local is built for speed and simplicity. We’ve spent years designing Local to make building, testing and deploying WordPress sites a breeze.

One-click WordPress install
One-click WordPress installation

Local makes creating a local WordPress site a total breeze, so you don’t have to bother with setting it up yourself. One click and your site is ready to go, SSL included!

Hot swap environments
Hot swap environments

Changing environments has never been easier. Hot-swap PHP 5.6, PHP 7.3 and 7.4 or try out the latest version of MySQL right from Local. It’s that simple!

Local Connect
Local Connect

Push and pull sites with Local to Flywheel or WP Engine for a super streamlined offline-editing and go-live process.

Live Links Pro
Live Links Pro

Quickly review site responsiveness across devices with secure, persistent URLs. With longer timeouts and connection limits, your clients and coworkers can review work on their own time!

Go deeper with developer tools

Local is the most delightful local WordPress tool, but it’s also the most powerful. As a developer, Local has everything you need to get more work done.

  • SSH & WP-CLI Simple root SSH access to individual sites
  • Mailcatcher View, test and debug mail sending
  • Log files PHP, NGINX, and MySQL logs available

All of our features

Here are a few (okay, many) of the reasons why Local is the best solution for local WordPress web development!

Site Services
  • Native, OS-level PHP, MYSQL, web server services
Site management
  • Hot-swap between NGINX or Apache*
  • Hot-swap between PHP versions
  • Change site URL by simply typing in the new domain (the database will be safely updated!)
Clone Sites
  • All files, databases, configs, and Local settings will be cloned
  • Site URL is automatically and safely changed
PHP
  • Available versions: 5.6, 7.3 and 7.4
  • Xdebug included: quickly debug PHP (Available from the Add-ons Library)
  • Opcache included
Sync and Deploy
  • Deploy to Flywheel production
  • Deploy to Flywheel staging
  • Deploy to WP Engine
  • MagicSync Pro
HTTP/HTTPS Tunnel (Included Add-on)
  • Basic site tunnels provided by Ngrok
  • Live Links Pro: persistent URLs with higher connection limits, built for testing as a team Pro
  • View your site on mobile devices, tablets, and other computers around the world as long as you have internet access
  • Test Stripe WebHooks, PayPal IPN, and REST APIs
WordPress Multisite
  • Support for both subdomain and subdirectory installations
  • One-click to sync subdomains to hosts file
Site Blueprints
  • Save any site as a Blueprint to re-use later
  • All files, databases, config files, and Local settings will be restored
Import/Export
  • Export includes site files, databases, config files, log files, and Local settings
  • Importing sites will restore all files, databases, and configs automatically
  • Exclude files from your exports such as archives, PSDs, .git directories, etc
Config Access
  • Config files to individual PHP versions, NGINX, Apache, and MySQL are all exposed for editing
TLS/HTTPS
  • Self-signed certificates are automatically created for new sites
  • One-click to trust self-signed certificates to suppress browser notices
Log Access
  • Log files to individual PHP versions, NGINX, Apache, and MySQL are all conveniently exposed
MailHog
  • MailHog is included to intercept any outgoing email from PHP sendmail for viewing and debugging (this also means you can test emails while offline)
SSH + WP-CLI
  • Simple root SSH access to individual sites
  • WP-CLI provided, simply type "wp" after opening site SSH
Support
Pre Launch Tools
  • Link Checker Pro
  • Image optimizer (coming soon) Pro
  • Live reload (coming soon) Pro

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