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I first heard of Flywheel<\/a> through their product Local, which is a native app for working on WordPress sites. If you ask around for what people use for that kind of work, you’ll get all sorts of answers, but an awful lot of very strong<\/em> recommendations for Local. I’ve become one of them! We ultimately did a sponsored post for Local<\/a>, but that’s based on the fact that now 100% of my local WordPress development work is done using it and I’m very happy with it. <\/p>\n

Now I’ve taken the next step and moved all my production sites to Flywheel hosting!<\/p>\n

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Full disclosure here, Flywheel is now a sponsor of CSS-Tricks. I’ve been wanting<\/em> to work with them for a while. I’ve been out to visit them in Omaha! (👋 at Jamie, Christi, Karissa, and everybody I’ve worked with over there.) Part of our deal includes the hosting. But I was a paying customer and user of Flywheel before this on some sites, and my good experiences there are what made me want to get this sponsorship partnership cooking! There has been big recent news<\/a> that Flywheel was acquired by WP Engine. I’m also a fan of WP Engine, being also a premium WordPress host that has done innovative things with hosting, so I’m optimistic that a real WordPress hosting powerhouse is being formed and I’ve got my sites in the right place.<\/p>\n

Developing on Local is a breeze<\/h3>\n

It feels like a breath of fresh air to me, as running all the dev dependencies for WordPress has forever been a bit of a pain in the butt. Sometimes you have it going fine, but then something breaks in the most inscrutable possible way and it takes forever to get going again. Whatever, you know what I mean. At this point, I’ve been running Local for over a year and have had almost no issues with it.<\/p>\n

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There are all kinds of features worth checking out here. Here’s one that is very likely useful to bigger teams. Say you have a Flywheel account with a bunch of production sites on it. Then a new person starts working with you and they have their own computer. You connect Local to Flywheel, and you can pull down<\/strong> the site and have it ready to work on. That’s pretty sweet. <\/p>\n

Local doesn’t lock you into anything either. You can use Local for local development and literally use nothing else. Local can push a site up to Flywheel hosting too, which I’ve found to be mighty useful particularly for that first deployment of a new site, but you don’t have to use that if you don’t want. I’ll cover more about workflow below.<\/p>\n

Other features that I find worthy of note:<\/p>\n