Hi i’m a novice here and would be grateful for some help
I have created my wordpress website, with divi on my local account. I have just purchased hosting with flywheel and on my dashboard it says on the bottom that it is connected to flywheel - but doesn’t show up under the connect tab - that says looks like you don’t have any hosted sites.
When I go onto my wordpress account so I can link woocommerce, for instance, it says my account is offline so it can’t connect it.
I’m wanting to work on my website as if it was live, but i’m not ready to push it live to the web yet as my domain is currently with wix and I want to do a swap over when completely finished.
Is it because my site domain is .local?
Is it not possible to connect woocommerce etc unless your domain is live on the web?
Do I need to do something on flywheel?
Is it, more likely, just that I’m completely missing something :). Thank you
Sounds like you’re embarking on quite the journey here!
You should be able to set up Woocommerce and get it going Locally.
When I go onto my wordpress account so I can link woocommerce, for instance, it says my account is offline so it can’t connect it.
Could you send a screenshot of this error? If you’re using Woocommerce you might also want to try reaching out to them or consulting their documentation as well since they might have some specific set up instructions that will help you!
You shouldn’t need to push your site to Flywheel until you’re ready, but when you do want to push to Flywheel you can use the steps here:
Once you move the site to Flywheel you can do all the domain switching from Wix to FW. You won’t need to do any of that in Local at this time.
It looks like you’ll have to skip the Jetpack portion while working Locally:
You could push your site to Flywheel just to get it online if you want to test more features. Flywheel will automatically assign your site a temporary domain, and you can also keep privacy mode enabled if you wish to not have anyone visiting it yet. That way you can still work on the site “online” and wait to move your domains when you’re ready to make it completely public.
