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Matthias Andrasch
Matthias Andrasch

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Pull a WordPress site into a local DDEV project (2022 edition)

I'm experimenting since last year with the open source tool #DDEV, which enables easy and isolated local PHP dev environments for CMS software like WordPress.

My main goal is to pull a live site with as few commands as possible to my local laptop to test updates beforehand or change some styles (in a child theme).

Here is my current progress for pulling via SSH (rsync, mysqldump) from a webspace:

More information:

For the demo video I used https://raidboxes.io/en/ as webspace host.

Maybe this is useful for you as well. If you have any cool workflows or approaches for pulling a WordPress site to a local dev project, let me know. Thanks!

Take care.

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