Error when Importing a Site Backup Zip File to local using Local by Flywheels

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Here are a couple threads that might get you where you need to go

Unable to Import Wordpress Site to Local 5.10.1 - ERROR 1146 (42S02) at line 1: Table 'local.wp_options' doesn't exist

Okay, so I figured it out. I’m really surprised to find out what the issue was, given how silly/stupid it is and that this tool didn’t have a way to manage it automatically. Especially since this tool is focused on Wordpress sites and making it easy. You would assume the import process would be the easy part. Also, I saw another person post this same issue and the solution provided by someone else, although it works, it’s A LOT more effort and just a ridiculous approach as well. So, here is th…

Import Site

Hello, I was able to solve the problem. I did it manually. First created a new empty wordpress site. Then replaced the content of the site with the content of the webspace of my existing site. Then I customized the wp-config.php file with root/local/localhost. And in a new “sql” folder copied the database of my site. So I could access phpmyadmin in Local. In it I imported the content of my database. Then I deleted the content of the local database and copied the content of my database into…