What issue or error are you experiencing? Basically, I have started using Local recently for my local development. I love the simplicity it brings to whizzing up WordPress sites in comparison to using something like xampp (which I was previously). My issue now is that one of the sites I’m working on…

Hi @robviz ! What sorts of “large files” does your site have? In the interest of performance and optimization it’s generally not a best practice to have things like video or audio files, unoptimized images, or bloated DB tables in your site. So if there are things like these that are taking up a lot…

Hi @Nick-B , Thanks for you reply - unfortunately the site in question is quite a large site in terms of uploads & database. Sometimes I’ll locally have a site and not include any uploads, but due to the testing needed, I need the uploads files on the site ideally, they stem back to 2020 and have a…

I’d recommend looking into a server like WP Offload Media . [image] Strategies for Handling Large WordPress Media Libraries in Dev and Staging... Offloading your media files is a well-known tactic for speeding up your WordPress sites, but WP Offload Media can also greatly reduce the time…

Local taking up too much room on my machine

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Nick-B May 29, 2024, 4:54pm 4

I’d recommend looking into a server like WP Offload Media.

This thread here might also provide some other useful suggestions:

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Can't load a really big wordpress site WordPress Questions installation	1	535	March 18, 2023
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Local taking up too much room on my machine

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