Simple Import/Export blueprint zips

Feature requests
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Blueprints seem like the best way to have a boilerplate project for our agency. Currently, the feature feels very single developer focused though. Theres no method for importing or exporting blueprints to share between coworkers.

I know I can go to the local folder on my desktop and find the blueprint, but the feature could benefit from having either a button to open the blueprints folder in explorer/finder or a button to save a blueprint and pick a location to copy the zip to, such as a shared drive.

Stretch idea: It would also be cool if these blueprints could pull from a GitHub repo.

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Also the docs for blueprint do specify the wrong path. This says the path is under %APPDATA%/Roaming/Local/blueprints but %APPDATA% is the roaming folder so it should just be %APPDATA%/Local/blueprints.

This post mentions the correct path here:

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Thank you for spinning up this feature request @joejankowiak!

I’ve also corrected the pathing on that Blueprint Help Doc as you pointed out so we appreciate your feedback on that as well :green_heart:

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Hey Nick, this is still a feature I’d be interested in. I was however recently playing with Kinsta’s local development tool and one thing they let you do is pull a hosted Kinsta environment as a starter for a project.

This would be more useful than exporting a zip and putting it in a google drive for our agency. If I could put my blueprint site in WPEngine and then tell my developers to clone from that, that would be amazing.

Pro to this is WPEngine can keep plugins up to date for when it cloned and would be easier to manage the blueprint as our needs change. Also gives another pro to hosting on WPEngine when using Local :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hey @joejankowiak - thanks for the feedback! I am a product manager at WP Engine and work on the team that builds Local - thank you for being a user :grinning_face:

To address your most recent comment: yes, you can do this on Local too!

  1. Connect to your WP Engine in the Connect tab

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  2. In the Connect tab, you’ll see a list of your sites on WP Engine. Imagine I have one called “Blueprint” - and hit “Pull to Local”.

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  3. When creating a site, you can choose to “Create a new site” or “Pull to existing” - creating new gives you the experience you’re looking for!

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Hopefully this addresses part of your need here… but I hear you on better support for Blueprints in general, both in Local and in WP Engine. I have some peers who exploring that right now on the WP Engine side, I will get in contact with them!

(Pro-tip: If you’re worried about your “blueprint” site taking up a billable spot in your WP Engine account, you can always use our sandbox sites for this purpose - check this out and let me know if I can help with anything. Introducing Sandbox Sites on WP Engine)

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