#INSTALL LOCAL BY FLYWHEEL FOR FREE#

Local WordPress development tool with support for WP Engine Once they’ve connected Local to their WP Engine account, they can then add any of their sites and download a fully working copy onto their computer.

#INSTALL LOCAL BY FLYWHEEL FOR FREE#

WP Engine customers can now download Local for free and connect it to their hosting account using an API username and password. Local now fully supports WP Engine, and there’s no need to install and run DevKit separately. Instead of WP Engine building a DevKit GUI, they integrated DevKit into Local. Local had an intuitive GUI and represented the missing link that DevKit needed to gain mass adoption. Part of Flywheel’s goodwill was a popular WordPress development tool called Local. Local by FlywheelĪlmost two weeks after DevKit was released, WP Engine announced they had acquired Flywheel on June 24, 2019.

David Vogelpohl, Vice President of Web Strategy, told Coywolf in June that they “recognize that CLI based interfaces ideal for everyone” and that they had their DevKit R&D team working on a graphic user interface ( GUI) to make it more accessible to their customers.Įight months after DevKit’s launch, there still isn’t a DevKit GUI, and that’s because WP Engine ended up launching something even better. When they released DevKit, WP Engine already knew it would likely have a limited audience. If that sounds complicated to use, it’s because it is. In June 2019, WP Engine released DevKit, a local WordPress development environment that required a command-line interface ( CLI) and Docker, a third-party Platform as a Service ( PaaS) container app. The latest version of Local seamlessly integrates DevKit, making it possible to develop sites locally and to push changes live to WP Engine with the click of a button.īy Jon Henshaw – Published on and last updated on Menu WordPress local development tool ‘Local’ now works with WP EngineĮight months after WP Engine acquired Flywheel, they are launching a new version of Flywheel's local WordPress development tool, Local, with full support for WP Engine.

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