I was just recommending the plugin as a potential workaround to get a full site export with everything you need together. I’ve never used Hostinger myself, but looking at their documentation it looks like you have the option to download the site files and database separately or together. You could try the latter method to ensure everything you need is included to be able to have a complete import for Local.
If you’re pulling all the files manually via FTP, then you could manually import them into Local with some extra steps like this:
- Create a new, blank site in Local. Use whatever username/password you like since you’ll overwrite the DB with this site archive’s dump.
- Copy the wp-content folder from the unzipped location to this newly created site’s location
- Copy the correct SQL dump to the site root. If you still don’t have the SQL, you could use the documentation from Hostinger above to just download the DB.
- Within Local, open the site shell
- Import the dump with
wp db import <dumpfile> - If that works, now Search and replace the domains.
wp search-replace ' https://production.com ' 'http:mylocalsite.local'