# Can I use Local with Existing Flywheel Sites?

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-use-local-with-existing-flywheel-sites/182>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 7, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-use-local-with-existing-flywheel-sites/182 "2016-12-07T17:19:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kristen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c4cdca/32.png) [@kristen](https://community.localwp.com/u/kristen)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-use-local-with-existing-flywheel-sites/182/1 "2016-12-07T17:19:00Z")

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I have a few existing flywheel hosted wordpress sites. Can I pull those down to use with local or can you only create new sites with it?

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**Author:** ![kristen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c4cdca/32.png) [@kristen](https://community.localwp.com/u/kristen)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-use-local-with-existing-flywheel-sites/182/2 "2017-01-04T03:51:03Z")

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So sad. Would love to be able to utilize this feature before I create a new site!

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**Author:** ![clay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/clay/32/8248_2.png) [@clay](https://community.localwp.com/u/clay)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-use-local-with-existing-flywheel-sites/182/3 "2017-01-04T15:49:39Z")

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Sorry for missing this topic!

Right now there’s not a simple way in Local but that will be coming in a future update.

In the meantime you can use Duplicator to backup and import your site into Local.

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**Author:** ![jordashtalon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/jordashtalon/32/1134_2.png) [@jordashtalon](https://community.localwp.com/u/jordashtalon)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-use-local-with-existing-flywheel-sites/182/4 "2017-07-12T14:15:32Z")

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This makes Local worthless.

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**Author:** ![clay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/clay/32/8248_2.png) [@clay](https://community.localwp.com/u/clay)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-use-local-with-existing-flywheel-sites/182/5 "2017-07-12T14:16:05Z")

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Hey all,

You can download the backup of your Flywheel site and simply drag-and-drop it into Local to import it 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://community.localwp.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-use-local-with-existing-flywheel-sites/182/6 "2020-08-25T18:31:15Z")

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