{"id":970,"date":"2021-07-09T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localwp.com\/?post_type=help&p=970"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:43:34","slug":"local-connect","status":"publish","type":"help","link":"https:\/\/localwp.com\/help-docs\/local-features\/local-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Local Connect<\/a><\/span> <\/strong>feature helps you move a site between Local and your remote hosting provider (WP Engine or Flywheel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulling a site down to Local allows you to quickly create a sandbox for experimenting with new ideas or testing updates to plugins and themes. Once you finish working on the site, deploying is easy by clicking the “push” button!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout development, you can pull down changes to the remote site to always have the latest content. Along the way, you can push works-in-progress to a staging environment to get feedback from co-workers or clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting started with Local Connect is easy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Connect Local to your hosting provider (Flywheel or WP Engine).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Start pushing or pulling and select the remote environment you’d like to use!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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