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Local is pretty flexible about being able to import a WordPress site from a zip
archive.
There are two required things that Local needs for the import to be successful:
wp-content
folder (containing plugins, themes, and uploads)sql
fileIf you manually download a backup from Flywheel’s servers or export a backup from a different host using a tool like BackWPup, then the zip
archive will probably look something like this:
Note that in this case, the database dump is next to a files folder, which contains the wp-content
folder.
All you need to do is import this zip
file by dragging and dropping it over Local or selecting “Import” from Local’s menu.
Local will ask you a few questions about the site, such as the Site Domain as well as the folder you want to use to hold the site. Depending on the size of the archive, the import can take a few seconds for smaller sites, or much longer if the zip
file is quite large.
There are some cases where you might need to re-import a site into Local using only the files contained within the site folder. Power failure or breaking changes caused by a system update can force you to restore a backup of your Local WordPress sites.
If you can get the Local site folder from a system restore point or a time-machine backup and it has both the WordPress files as well as the sql
files, then you have everything you need to re-import the site!
To give some context, you would want to zip
the whole site folder, including the app
and logs
folders. Using the following screenshots as an example, you would zip up the wordpress-import
folder, and then use the wordpress-import.zip
file to import into Local by dragging and dropping the archive over Local.
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