Importing a downloaded site

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In that case you might have to go the manual route with some extra steps. We have a feature request below here for non-WP sites, but also some users have left helpful comments on how to proceed.

Create non WP sites with Local

Spin up a new WordPress site, go and delete all the WordPress files and drop all the database tables. Then save that as a blueprint and use it when you want to spin up a non-WP site.