Bedrock VS Local by Flywheel

Bedrock Reviews

Local by Flywheel Reviews

Bedrock mentions (28)

• WordPress Core to start using SQLite Database

  I really wish Wordpress would ditch the shared-hosting first deployment model and grow up a bit. Thankfully https://roots.io/bedrock/ exists to bridge the gap if you're absolutely forced to use WP. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• How do you create WordPress websites for your clients?

  There are ready-made boilerplates like Bedrock and Sword but, at an architectural level, I'm not a fan of any I've seen. Source: 10 months ago

• Modern Plugin Boilerplate - GIT + PHP8 + Composer

  Is this any good? https://roots.io/bedrock/ for a plugin? Source: 10 months ago

• ManageWP - Yes or no?

  As I only really use it for keeping stuff up to date, I'm looking at using Roots Bedrock for my next project. I'll then be keeping everything up to date via composer. Source: about 1 year ago

• WordPlate: WordPress on Composer with sensible defaults

  What advantages does WordPlate have over Bedrock[1], some of whose packages WordPlate also uses? [1] https://roots.io/bedrock/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Local by Flywheel mentions (227)

• Introducing WP Setup

  Developing WordPress plugins and themes often requires a reliable development environment. Current we have good solutions as wp-env from Autommatic, Local WP from WP Engine, Docker, XAMPP (for old ones) and so on. All this can be good suits for a development environment, specially Local WP that is probably the easiest one to get up and running and wp-env that leverages Docker as a development environment in a very... - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

• Self hosting wordpress for testing

  Personally if you’re on windows I like using localwp (localwp.com) from wheelfly / wpengine it lets you quickly spin up multiple sites, duplicate them, test mail, one click admin, etc. Its helped me prototype multiple websites over the last year faster than I ever did manually setting up Wordpress instances on vms or docker. Source: 5 months ago

• WordPress in Linux

  Adding to the above recommendations, you could also try Local by Flywheel: https://localwp.com/. Source: 5 months ago

• Is there any training program on basic PHP for WordPress?

  IMHO Don't worry about the Flywheel environment that's referred to in in the course, just use Local WP to provision a local hosting environment https://localwp.com/ – or MAMP or whatever you prefer – and go from there. Source: 8 months ago

• Is there a "For Dummies" explanation of using PHPStorm from Win10 and Xdebug remotely?

  I tried to set things up locally with Local, but man was that slow and the available components (like PHP) are not the same version as on the production server so I worry about compatibility. Source: 9 months ago