![]() This is necessary to conditionally load code in different environments. We’ve used our own set of constants before and others have used the WP_ENV environment variable. ![]() There’s a lot to cover so although this post will have a tonne of information, it also features a good collection of links to other articles that dive deeper.ĭid you know that WordPress 5.5 introduces a way to set the environment type for a site? In the past developers had to roll their own method of setting the environment. In this post I’ll guide you through various ways to set up the dev environment, install WordPress locally, wrangle the database, debugging and lots in between. Running a WordPress dev environment for your sites is crucial to a productive and safe workflow as a developer. If there are other settings you need added to your wp-config.php file, please contact Flywheel support and we’d be happy to help out.When running a WordPress website it’s best practice to at least run a local copy of the site so you can make changes without running the risk of completely ruining the live site. More information in the article: WordPress in another language? If you’re working in a language other than English, you can look up your language code, and then contact Flywheel support to have us change the value. If you’re working in English, you can leave this blank. Name of the language translation (.mo) file that you want to use. If you need to change the Charset or Collation that WordPress uses, contact support and we can update these values for you. Note: this is sometimes necessary for migrating sites from old versions of WordPress. If your site has SSL enabled, we’re happy to enable these options to force SSL connections for logins and administrative functions in WordPress. ![]() See the directions for the domain mapping plugin for more information. You may need to place the sunrise.php file in the proper directory yourself, however. This is enabled automatically when setting up multisite (as long as you check the proper box). Older multisite installations may require support for domain mapping (aka Sunrise). (Note that multisite is not compatible with Staging at this time.) Installing and configuring multisite is handled automatically by enabling Multisite from the Advanced tab of a site’s Flywheel dashboard. More that here: How do I enable WP_CACHE?Ĭhange your table prefix on the Advanced tab under Database. More information in the article: How do I change the table prefix in my wp-config.php file?Ĭommon settings that Flywheel support can turn on and/or configure for you: WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE If you’re using a persistent caching plugin like WP Rocket, you can enable WP_CACHE in your config file from the Advanced Tab. More information in the article: How do I turn on WP_DEBUG? You can easily switch debug mode on and off on the Advanced tab. Settings you can change yourself via the Flywheel dashboard: We do this for several reasons: for security, because it gets auto-generated by our software, and because most everything you’d want to do there automatically gets configured for you. Flywheel locks down your wp-config.php file and doesn’t allow changes to be made directly to it.
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