Wordpress setup for local development

I've been using this stack for a while for quick prototyping, debugging and error reproduction on my local machine.

Prerequisites

• Docker Desktop for Mac and Windows
• Docker Engine and docker-compose for Linux

Initialization

Start fresh instances

Take a look at the compose file, and modify the default credentials and ports if needed. Then start new instances by issuing:

docker-compose up -d

By default:

• the Wordpress instance will be available on http://localhost:8080
• you can connect to the MySQL server on localhost:3306

You can stop the instances by running:

docker-compose down

PLug existing Wordpress data

• Move the contents of the Wordpress installation into the src folder.
• Update src/wp-config.php with the MySQL credentials from docker-compose.yml

Plug existing database

Move the contents of the sql dump into the dump.sql file. Note that it will be loaded into the database name given to MYSQL_DATABASE in docker-compose.yml.

Clearing exisiting instances

⚠ Warning

Note that all data in the MySQL database will be lost

To delete all existing instances, you can run:

docker-compose down -v

Tweaks

Upload limit

The wordpress container's default config allows uploads upto 150MBs. These settings can be adjusted in the uploads.ini file.