# Advanced Setting - Add 1 (or more) local folders as Volume mounts
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/advanced-setting-add-1-or-more-local-folders-as-volume-mounts/196
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [January 21, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/advanced-setting-add-1-or-more-local-folders-as-volume-mounts/196 "2021-01-21T13:43:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@onebigidea](https://community.kinsta.com/u/onebigidea)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/advanced-setting-add-1-or-more-local-folders-as-volume-mounts/196/1 "2021-01-21T13:43:36Z")
I prefer not to mix my development files (plugins / themes) within the wp-content folder. Inevitably when copying wp-content from production - I will wipe out my local files (oops)
I prefer to symlink from within the container to a separate /volume for the files I am currently editing. Then if I later re-copy wp-content (as above) - then I merely have to re-create the symlinks.
This would also be useful those who use build tools such as Composer, Gulp, npm et al - i.e. building would occur outside the container - and we don’t load down the container with those tools.
e.g. on my mac - I could select a folder such as ~/projects/plugins to mount as “dev” - then in the container - I could symlink to /mnt/dev/my-plugin in the plugins directory - voilà!
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/advanced-setting-add-1-or-more-local-folders-as-volume-mounts/196/2 "2021-01-22T23:54:08Z")
Thanks for the feature request @onebigidea!
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### Author:  [@jcasabona](https://community.kinsta.com/u/jcasabona)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/advanced-setting-add-1-or-more-local-folders-as-volume-mounts/196/3 "2021-02-24T15:30:36Z")
+1 for the same exact reasons!
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### Author:  [@danemorgan](https://community.kinsta.com/u/danemorgan)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/advanced-setting-add-1-or-more-local-folders-as-volume-mounts/196/4 "2021-06-28T17:02:59Z")
+1 for this or for symlink support. I primarily provide continuous development and deployment for my clients. I keep all of my themes and plugins in a projects folder where they can be symlinked to several WordPress installs so that development and updates are reflected on all of the dev sites that share those assets.
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### Author:  [@jmele](https://community.kinsta.com/u/jmele)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/advanced-setting-add-1-or-more-local-folders-as-volume-mounts/196/5 "2022-09-09T18:18:55Z")
+1 for symlink support. It’s so needed.
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### Author:  [@taija](https://community.kinsta.com/u/taija)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/advanced-setting-add-1-or-more-local-folders-as-volume-mounts/196/6 "2022-10-13T16:24:15Z")
+1 - this is the feature that keeps me from using DevKinsta- the themes and plugins I develop are used on several different dev sites. With Local, I can just symlink them where I need them.
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### Author:  [@Kevin](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Kevin)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/advanced-setting-add-1-or-more-local-folders-as-volume-mounts/196/7 "2022-10-13T19:49:18Z")
Hi @taija, thanks for the feedback!
I just wanted to point you to this more recent thread: [Symlinked plugin does not appear in Admin](https://community.kinsta.com/t/symlinked-plugin-does-not-appear-in-admin/209)
I’ve been sharing all the feedback with our developers and it looks like custom volume mounts will be a future feature. We are still in the planning stages but I just wanted everyone to know that we are working on this.