Wordpress Boilerplate

This repo contains a simple boilerplate for Wordpress development including:

• Vagrant environment
• Docker compose setup
• Basic MySQL installation
• Basic Wordpress installation
• Nginx configuration

Build and run VM environment

You will need Vagrant to create the environment, additionally you need to install the hosts-updater plugin.

vagrant install plugin vagrant-hostsupdater
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Build and run Docker

docker compose build
docker compose up -d
docker compose logs -f

Create database for Wordpress

echo "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS wordpress" | docker exec -it mysql mysql -u root -p'secret'
echo "CREATE DATABASE wordpress" | docker exec -i mysql mysql -u root -p'secret'
echo "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on wordpress.* to wordpress@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpress'" | docker exec -i mysql mysql -u root -p'secret'

Open Wordpress in a browser

Once the environment and Docker are built, simply go to: http://wordpress.dev to setup Wordpress.

Where is my data?

The docker-compose.yml contains the following volumes to persist data:

• /srv/wordpress-boilerplate/mysql/data - MySQL database
• /srv/wordpress-boilerplate/wordpress/wp-content - Wordpress content, uploads, themes, etc