Local is too slow with wordpress and windows 10

I had a 10 second delay trying to resolve pages too. Windows 10, any browser. Was getting frustrated.

I created a new site “redesign”, with twentytwenty2 theme, no plugins and it was still slow. Redesign.local

Tried pinging my site like “ping redesign.local” and found it was taking a lot longer to resolve the IP than if I just typed “ping google.com”.

Found some general stuff on google regarding windows dns and “.local” stuff and delays for mac, windows, servers, etc…

Found that if I just changed the host name to “redesign.abc”, it renamed the site and the SSL and then came up immediately!

So after creating the sites, rename the extension from .local to .abc (or any other domain extension not in use), and it should work as expected.

Hope it helps.

It may be nice if the LocalWP people stop using “.local” by default.

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