WordPress Local Development Without the Uploads DirectoryWhen doing local development on a WordPress site, you typically need three things: Working copy of the codebase. Recent-ish copy of the database. The entire contents of wp-content/uploads. That third one can be problematic. Some WordPress sites have tens or hundreds of thousands of uploads. Let’s say a site posts once a day for a decade, and each post has five images and their theme defines 12 ima
