Using WP Local with WP Engine

What is Local?

Local software lets you set up a local WordPress development environment on your computer.

It would be best if you had a faster testing environment for your website and its tools during website development and maintenance. A local development environment on your computer can serve this purpose. You can easily set up this environment with Local WP on your computer.

WP Engine's Local
WP Local Page

In addition, Local enables you to connect your live WP Engine site to the local site. The connection allows you to pull down any site files to your computer and push site files to the server.

In this lesson, we will look at the following;

  • How To Connect WP Engine to Local
  • How To Pull down a site from WP Engine to Local
  • How To Push Files from Local to WP Engine