wordpress-dev

A local/development Wordpress environment to peacefully prepare your future website.

A need to develop your WordPress site without updating your production environment, visible to all, and you do not have a test/staging environment with your web hosting. Use this repository to run a local environment with Docker, and once ready, put your site online thanks to the included database backup feature and the wordpress folder.

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Docker-compose

Usage

Clone the repository and navigate to the project directory:

git clone <repository-url>
cd wordpress-dev

Make the script executable:

chmod +x wp-dev.sh

Copy the example environment file and customize it:

cp .env.example .env

Edit the .env file to set your own database credentials and other configurations.

Available scripts

The wp-dev.sh script provides several commands to manage your local Wordpress environment:

Start the environment

./wp-dev.sh up

This command starts the Wordpress environment using Docker-compose.
Visit http://localhost:8080 to view your WordPress.
Visit http://localhost:8180 to view the phpMyAdmin interface.

Stop the environment and backup the database

./wp-dev.sh down

This command creates a backup of the database and stops the Wordpress environment.

Backup the database

./wp-dev.sh backup

This command creates a backup of the database without stopping the environment.

Restore the database

./wp-dev.sh restore

This command restores the database from the backup file.

Notes

• Ensure Docker and Docker-compose are installed and running on your system. Personally I use Rancher Desktop.
• Modify the database credentials and other configurations in the .env file as needed.