Flywheel Acquires Pressmatic to Expand its’ WordPress Reach
📅 - A recent announcement stated that Flywheel, a WordPress hosting and management company, has acquired Pressmatic, a local WordPress manager. The acquisition has changed the name of Pressmatic to Local by Flywheel and the served is now offered for free.
Flywheel is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska and offers many different hosting services for designers and creative agencies. Pressmatic is a local WordPress development app used to as a manager. It allows developers to use WordPress on the OS X operating system.
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