wordmove VS Ruby-Cheatsheet

If you are comfortable using a terminal i would recommend wordmove. Setting it up can be tricky but after that its probably the fastest way to sync websites.

If it's a bigger website then I will use two stacks. Same docker-compose code, different environment variables. One stack will be on my production server, and the other will be on my development server. They are the same stack since the stack only defines the infrastructure, not the code, so you can use the same code for two different environments. All mounted volumes (mysql, wordpress cms files, media, plugins, etc) are ignored in my git repos. I use Wordmove to transfer files and data between environments. It has push/pull capabilities and will automatically change your permalinks for you, so you can pull data from your production environment into development, or you can push development data to production. Very useful.

Check out Wordmove. Provided you have SSH access to the remote server it'll handle transferring everything pretty seamlessly, including replacing domain names between environments. Check the repo's Wiki for a wealth of info. To avoid problems with the Local app make sure you're using the same PHP binary (in Local's site list, right click -> Open Site Shell)

Just use WordMove : https://github.com/welaika/wordmove