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What is Local by Flywheel?

It is a free local development environment designed to simplify the workflow of WordPress developers and designers. It makes creating a local WordPress site a light breeze. Any site created with it, will automatically have a self-signed certificate created.
Local by Flywheel is a tool in the CMS Tools category of a tech stack.

Who uses Local by Flywheel?

Companies
3 companies reportedly use Local by Flywheel in their tech stacks, including Websites, Spigot, and Worldmedia Interactive.

Developers
42 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Local by Flywheel.

Local by Flywheel Integrations

Pros of Local by Flywheel
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Optimized for Wordpress development
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Superior user interface
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Faster setup

Local by Flywheel's Features

  • ONE-CLICK WORDPRESS INSTALLATION
  • HASSLE-FREE LOCAL SSL SUPPORT
  • SSH + WP-CLI ACCESS

Local by Flywheel Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Local by Flywheel?
MAMP
It can be installed under macOS and Windows with just a few clicks. It provides them with all the tools they need to run WordPress on their desktop PC for testing or development purposes, for example. It doesn't matter if you prefer Apache or Nginx or if you want to work with PHP, Python, Perl or Ruby.
XAMPP
It consists mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.
Bitnami
Our library provides trusted virtual machines for every major development stack and open source server application, ready to run in your infrastructure.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
Vagrant
Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
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Local by Flywheel's Followers
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