Develop plugin or theme with Docker

It provides WordPress, MariaDB, PHPMyAdmin suite for WordPress development.

Set-up

1. Clone or fork this repository.

2. Put your plugin or theme code in the root of this folder and adjust the services/wordpress/volumes section of docker-compose.yml so that it syncs to the appropriate directory.

3. Add mywp.test to /etc/hosts like:

   127.0.0.1 mywp.test
   

Start environment

docker-compose up -d

The first time you run this, it will take a few minutes to pull in the required images. On subsequent runs, it should take less than 30 seconds before you can connect to WordPress in your browser. (Most of this time is waiting for MariaDB to be ready to accept connections.)

The -d flag backgrounds the process and log output. To view logs for a specific container, use docker-compose logs [container], e.g.:

docker-compose logs wordpress

WordPress site

Open http://mywp.test/ in your browser and follow the famous five-second WordPress install.

Adminer - Database management

To access the Adminer visit: http://mywp.test:8080 and use username as root and password as blank.

Login to container

If you want to access the docker container with SSH, you can easily connect to docker by using the below docker command.

docker exec -it app_container bash