Cloning production site down to local?

It can absolutely be done using WP-Cli.

Do you have SSH access to the remote server/site? If so, I am happy to show you a process I’ve cooked up using rsync as well as just some standard SQL for the database. That’s my preferred way to do it at the moment.

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