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Push and pull sites with Local to hosts like Flywheel or WP Engine for a super streamlined offline-editing and go‑live process. A collection of pre-launch tools Ship your site with confidence thanks to tools like Local's broken link checker, image optimizer, and instant reload features.

If you’re using Local by Flywheel to work on your projects, there may be times where you need to make customizations to the PHP configuration when the site starts.

See what developers are saying about how they use Local by Flywheel. Check out popular companies that use Local by Flywheel and some tools that integrate with Local by Flywheel. The most apparent change with Local “Lightning” is speed. Local launches instantly (think three seconds instead of three minutes) and wp-admin loads faster than anywhere else. (Yep, even faster than Flywheel!) This makes starting your work or beginning to write code a whole lot faster. Local by Flywheel is a local development application designed to simplify the workflow of WordPress designers and developers. The free version comes with one-click WordPress installations, unlimited environments, and SSL out of the box—everything you need to get up and running in no time. Local is the fastest and most intuitive and well designed application among all. Originally called Pressmatic, Local was later acquired by Flywheel who has since been giving it away for free to all new users. Flywheel was also recently acquired by WP Engine, so Local is now a WP Engine product.

Before getting started, note the following: Cheap transmissions.

  1. At a high-level, Local will start a containerized environment,
  2. A containerized environment will have its own set of configuration every single time it starts
  3. This means that you cannot change any configuration to the OS-level installation to achieve the changes you need.

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Change Local PHP Settings

For example, say that you need to manage the memory_limit in PHP that runs for your current site. At the time of this article, the default memory limit is 256MB.

Depending on the size of your project, this could be too low. Instead, locate the following directory:

/Users/[your user name]/[your local directory]/[your site directory]/conf/php

Then find the following file:

php.ini.hbs

Open the file in your preferred editor and change the value for memory_limit to whatever you need (like 1024M 😅) then restart your site.

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The amount of allocated memory should be changed from 256MB to a 1GB. To verify this, set up a file with a single call to phpinfo() and then view it in your editor.

Some Details

  • Local configuration files in the hbs format are in Handlebars templates.
  • Local uses the PHP configuration for a given site based on the settings of the php.ini.hbs file – nothing you change at the system level will change this.
  • Random, fun(?) fact: Local was once Pressmatic that I covered several times when it first came out.