I got a new laptop a year ago, reinstalled Local, made some changes to my website, but now I realized none of these changes are showing up on other devices. After some troubleshooting, I think this is caused by me changing laptops: When I open the WP Admin dashboard on my old laptop, I don’t see any of the Users or Projects I added on my new laptop. These newly added projects are not visible on my website either. The newly added Users are not able to access my WP Admin Dashboard. Somehow, my username on both WP Admin dashboards is the same, but the password for each of them is different.
I want to use my new laptop and want to be able to add new users and make updates to my website. How can I resolve this issue?
What steps can be taken to replicate the issue? Feel free to include screenshots, videos, etc
System Details
Local Version: 9.2.8 on new laptop. 8.2.1 on the old laptop
Operating System (OS) and OS version: Windows 11 on new laptop. Windows 10 on old laptop
Each instance of Local and your site on each device is essentially separate and its own install. So when you make changes, updates, etc, on Device 2, those will not reflect on Device 1. You would have to export a fresh copy of the site from the second device and import it back on the first one.
If you wanted to simplify this workflow somewhat, you could set up a copy of your site on a server/host where you can push your changes and then pull a copy of the site back down to whatever device you may be using.
You can also use our Cloud backups feature for this, but you would still need to backup the site after each use and then reimport it each time you access from another device, then repeat.
When I switched from Device 1 to Device 2, that’s exactly what I did: I pushed my changes to Flywheel on Device 1, switched it off, put it in a drawer and never touched it again. I then pulled a copy of the site onto Device 2 and continued working on my website from there. In Local, it looks like the content on Device 2 is successfully pushing to Flywheel, however, when people visit my website, none of these changes are visible.
After much troubleshooting, I grabbed my Device 1 out of the drawer and discovered that my WP admin password for both Device 1 and Device 2 are somehow different, although my user name and email are the same.
I guess I could create a backup on Device 2. Reinstall everything, try to login to WP Admin with the password I use on Device 1, and import the backed up material?
I might be a bit confused here about what is showing up or not showing up where now, but your site on Device 1 wouldn’t be updated at all unless you repulled the Flywheel site over top of it again.
however, when people visit my website, none of these changes are visible.
What changes are we talking about specifically? Have you checked if any changes update after flushing server cache, or do you have any plugin/theme caching/CSS that needs refreshed? Any mixed content or other other errors showing up in dev tools indicating where content might be missing?
The server cache you can flush from the Advanced Tab of your FW dashboard
I’m not sure about the login details being different. My guess would just be that at some point this was changed. Are you sure the password couldn’t have been changed at all in that time period? Do you utilize any user mangement or security plugins?
I guess I could create a backup on Device 2. Reinstall everything, try to login to WP Admin with the password I use on Device 1, and import the backed up material?
Again I’m not sure what is missing from where here. Are you trying to get the material from Device 1 to Device 2, or something different?
Sorry for causing confusion here. And thanks for trying to help out!
What I’m trying to achieve: I want to use Device 2 (my new device) to work on my webpage and push changes that are visible for others to see.
What problem am I facing: On Device 2, I open LocalWP, open WP Admin, launch Semplice and make change to my website, publish the changes, and push the changes in LocalWP to an existing Flywheel site in the production environment. However, these changes are not visible on any other device. My website stays frozen in the state it was when I stopped using Device 1 and started using Device 2.
What troubleshooting I tried
I have tried to flush the server cache in Flywheel, but that didn’t help unfortunately. I don’t have caching enabled in Wordpress or on Flywheel. I do not use any plugins in WP Admin, only a Semplice theme.
I opened Local and WP Admin on Device 1, and realized that it had a different password (with the same user name and email). It also wasn’t showing the new users or added projects I had created on Device 2. When I login to WP Admin from a random other device (let’s call it device 3), only the password of Device 1 works, not the one of Device 2. My suspicion is that this is the cause behind my website not updating when I push updates on Device 2.
I hope it’s clearer now Thanks again for helping out here!
Thank you for the clarification @brammelam! It sounds to me like maybe the Local push to Flywheel jobs from Device 2 aren’t completing or aren’t as “successful” as they seem.
As an alternative, you could try using Flywheel’s free migration plugin, which can be a workaround for pushing from Local to Flywheel (it just won’t pull).
It might be worth a test just to see if anything changes with that workflow. That might help indicate where the problem is. If it works and the changes appear, then maybe something is interfering with the Local Connect sync.
If you want to share your full Local Logs here as well, we can try to take a deeper look and see if anything stands out: Retrieving Local’s Log File
Thanks! I tried to use Flywheel’s migration plugin and bumped into a problem on the step “Log in to WP Admin of the Flywheel site”: When I click on the “WP admin” button in Flywheel I get the following error message:
{"code":"rest_no_route","message":"No route was found matching the URL and request method.","data":{"status":404}}
Could that be a clue to help indicate what the problem is?
Instead of doing the one click login can you just manually navigate to that login URL and log in that way? I believe that error usually happens if there is a plugin conflict at play that disrupts the SSO but I’m not certain.
Thanks again for helping out here!