Local is pretty flexible about being able to import a WordPress site from a zip archive.
There are two required things that Local needs for the import to be successful:
- The
wp-contentfolder (containing plugins, themes, and uploads) - A database dump as a
sqlfile
If you manually download a backup from Flywheel’s servers or export a backup from a different host using a tool like BackWPup, then the zip archive will probably look something like this: