Local has long been the number one local WordPress development solution for people who want to build with WordPress on their local machine.
The ability to easily launch, configure, and operate new sites from the near-zero latency environment of your own desktop greatly increases developer productivity. And we can’t ignore the fact that it’s a gorgeous-looking app.
However, building locally is another thing. Using something built with Local as is is a different story. Local version 8.3, released this week, makes this task of “publishing your site” much easier.
We’ve reimagined Local deployment capabilities and significantly improved the overall user experience and its reliability. In addition to streamlining the flow of connecting your WP Engine account locally, we’ve also taken steps to give you more control over what actually moves when you press a button.
Let’s take a look!
Connect your account
To connect Local to your WP Engine hosting account, you first need to have an account. Explore our plans to find the hosting solution that fits your needs. Once your account is ready, it’s as simple as clicking the ‘pull’ button locally on any site and authenticating with your account.
Something like this:
Site and environment selection
Once Local is authenticated to your WP Engine account, you can select the account (you can actually have multiple accounts), site, and site environment (dev, staging, production) to push or pull the site to. Masu.
like this:
Choose what to move
Now, sometimes you don’t want to push all live. In some cases, you may want to send just a file without using a database, or you may want to send only part of a file.I want to attract others only Stop the database, leave the files intact, and synchronize the development environment with production data. Now you can easily do this locally.
Check it out:
What’s next…
It’s these kinds of improvements that make a big difference for local users looking to further streamline their workflows.
But it doesn’t end here! This year’s roadmap is packed with exciting features and improvements that will further solidify Local as everyone’s favorite local WordPress development tool.
If you want a glimpse of what’s to come, join us at DE{CODE} this year. You can register for free here.
Not working locally yet? Download it for free here!