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⭐ Features

  • A containerize WordPress development environment using Docker
  • Automated setup of WodPress using Make commands for less dependent on using browsers
  • Multiple installation & activation of themes or plugins in local, wordpress repository or other valid repositories
  • Auto cleanup of default wordpress themes, plugins, posts & pages
  • (OPTIONAL) Webpack build setup ready for development & production modes
    • Auto reloading of the page for custom theme using Browsersync or Hot Module Replacement
    • Bootstrap 4 framework setup ready
    • Assets(js, css, fonts, image) optimization

🔧 Installed tool kits

  • MariaDB/MySQL - used for Wordpress database
  • Adminer - database management system to connect to your MariaDB database & it also an alternative for phpMyAdmin
  • WP-Cli: - Wordpress Command Line Interface
  • Makefile - directives for automatization.

‼️ Requirements

  • Chocolatey - for installing GNU Make in Windows machine
  • Docker
  • GNU Make
  • Git Bash

NOTE: These tools are optional for using webpack bundler.

  • Node.js - for NPM
  • Webpack

Installing Docker

Installing GNU Make

Windows

  1. Open poweshell.exe & run as an administrator.

  2. Goto https://chocolatey.org and check the powershell command in step 2 or just copy & paste the command below.

    Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
  3. Close the poweshell. Open & run it again as an administrator.

  4. Install the gnu make by running the command.

    choco install make
  5. Done!. You can now use make globally.

   

Quick Setup

  1. Open terminal or commandline to download the source using git.

    # Download a wordpress docker-compose example
    git clone https://github.com/jeffmlazo/docker-wordpress
  2. Change to the directory.

    # Change directory
    cd docker-wordpress
  3. Edit the .env file base in you're configuration.

    NOTE: If you're adding a downloaded zip file theme(s) or plugin(s) for the 1st time of installation in you're local machine. You must manually create a folder that has a name WordPressThemes & create another folder inside of it with plugins folder in you're home directory and put all you're themes & plugins inside of it. You can modify the default folder names as well if you like.

    # 1/ Project name -------------------------------------------------
    # Must be lower-case, no spaces and no invalid path chars.
    # Will be used also as the WP database name
    COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=wordpress
    
    # 2/ Database user, user password and root password -----------------------------------------
    # Set non-root database user if wanted (optional)
    DB_USER=user
    DB_PASSWORD=password
    DB_ROOT_PASSWORD=root_password
    DB_NAME=wordpress_db
    
    # 3/ For wordpress auto-install and auto-configuration -------------------
    WORDPRESS_WEBSITE_TITLE="My Personal Blog"
    WORDPRESS_TABLE_PREFIX="wp_"
    
    # URL
    WORDPRESS_WEBSITE_URL="http://localhost"
    WORDPRESS_WEBSITE_URL_WITHOUT_HTTP=localhost
    WORDPRESS_WEBSITE_POST_URL_STRUCTURE="/blog/%postname%/"
    
    # Website admin identification. Specify a strong password
    WORDPRESS_ADMIN_USER="wordpress"
    WORDPRESS_ADMIN_PASSWORD="wordpress"
    WORDPRESS_ADMIN_EMAIL="your-email@example.com"
    
    # 4/ Software versions -----------------------------------------------
    WORDPRESS_VERSION="latest"
    MARIADB_VERSION="latest"
    PHPMYADMIN_VERSION="latest"
    ADMINER_VERSION="latest"
    
    # 5/ Ports: Can be changed -------------------------------------------
    ADMINER_PORT=8080
    WORDPRESS_PORT=80
    MARIADB_PORT=3306
    
    # 6/ Volumes on host --------------------------------------------------
    #-------------------- DEFAULT FOLDERS --------------------#
    WORDPRESS_THEME_FOLDER="WordPressThemes"
    WORDPRESS_THEME_PLUGIN_FOLDER="plugins"
    
    #-------------------- WORDPRESS LOCAL, THEME & PLUGIN DIRECTORY --------------------#
    WORDPRESS_LOCAL_DIR="./wordpress"
    WORDPRESS_THEME_LOCAL_DIR="~/${WORDPRESS_THEME_FOLDER}"
    WORDPRESS_THEME_PLUGIN_LOCAL_DIR="~/${WORDPRESS_THEME_FOLDER}/${WORDPRESS_THEME_PLUGIN_FOLDER}"
    
    #-------------------- CONTAINER ROOT DIRECTORY --------------------#
    WORDPRESS_CONTAINER_DIR="/var/www/html"
    WORDPRESS_THEME_CONTAINER_ROOT_DIR="/${WORDPRESS_THEME_FOLDER}"
    WORDPRESS_THEME_PLUGIN_CONTAINER_ROOT_DIR="/${WORDPRESS_THEME_FOLDER}/${WORDPRESS_THEME_PLUGIN_FOLDER}"
    
    # 7/ Healthcheck availability of host services (mysql and woordpress server)
    # Waiting time in second
    WAIT_BEFORE_HOSTS=5
    WAIT_AFTER_HOSTS=5
    WAIT_HOSTS_TIMEOUT=300
    WAIT_SLEEP_INTERVAL=60
    WAIT_HOST_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=5
    
    # 8/ Used only in online deployment --------------------------------------
    WORDPRESS_WEBSITE_URL_WITHOUT_WWW=example.com
    WEBSITE_URL_WITHOUT_HTTP=sql.example.com
    
    # 9/ Wordpress Themes, Plugins, Posts & Pages --------------------------------------
    # NOTE: Spaces are case sensitive here 1 space needed per theme or plugin for local or repo and .zip extension is needed for local theme & plugins.
    #-------------------- THEMES & PLUGINS --------------------#
    WORDPRESS_LOCAL_THEMES="unos.2.7.2.zip"
    WORDPRESS_REPO_THEMES="sydney calliope newsberg"
    # WORDPRESS_REPO_THEMES_VERSION="2.7.2 1.0.2 0.7" #TODO: version flag is not yet working
    WORDPRESS_LOCAL_PLUGINS="all-in-one-wp-migration.6.82.zip all-in-one-wp-migration-file-extension.zip carousel-slider.zip"
    WORDPRESS_REPO_PLUGINS="contact-form-7"
    
    #-------------------- DEFAULT THEMES, PLUGINS, POSTS & PAGES --------------------#
    WORDPRESS_DEFAULT_THEMES="twentytwenty twentynineteen twentyseventeen twentysixteen"
    WORDPRESS_DEFAULT_PLUGINS="hello akismet"
    # Hello world! post & Sample & Privacy Policy page
    WORDPRESS_DEFAULT_POSTS_PAGES="1 2 3"
    
    # 10/ For webpack setup variables
    CUSTOM_THEME_FOLDER="underscore-custom-theme"
    CUSTOM_THEME_DISTRIBUTION_FOLDER="dist"
    CUSTOM_THEME_FONTS_FOLDER="fonts"
    # These variables are only used in the root main Makefile
    # Use only these if you're lazy to create a lot of default empty asset files for javascript or sass
    CUSTOM_THEME_DIR="./wordpress/wp-content/themes/${CUSTOM_THEME_FOLDER}"
    CUSTOM_THEME_SRC_DIR="${CUSTOM_THEME_DIR}/src"
    CUSTOM_THEME_SRC_JS_DIR="${CUSTOM_THEME_SRC_DIR}/js"
    CUSTOM_THEME_SRC_SASS_DIR="${CUSTOM_THEME_SRC_DIR}/sass"
    CUSTOM_THEME_SRC_JS_FILES="app.js vendor.js"
    CUSTOM_THEME_SRC_SASS_FILES="main.scss _vars.scss _customize-bootstrap.scss"
  4. Run the make command to build and start the installation.

    # Build and start installation
    make autoinstall
  5. Done!

Visit your site at http://localhost and your database via Adminer at http://localhost:8080.

Default identification for your wordpress website admin:

  • Username: wordpress
  • Password: wordpress

Default identification for the Adminer interface:

  • Server: mariadb
  • Username: user
  • Password: password

Useful set of commands to know:

Docker-compose Commands

# Stop current running containers
docker-compose down

# Build, and start the wordpress website
docker-compose up -d --build

# Reset everything
docker-compose down
rm -rf certs/* certs-data/* logs/nginx/* mysql/* wordpress/*

# Run wpcli as a service in terminal
docker-compose run --rm wpcli bash

Makefile Commands

NOTE: You can use these makefile commands as an alternative for docker-compose commands. These will also be use in setup for wpcli options and you don't use the browser for installing wordpress.

# Start the wordpress website
start:
	docker-compose up -d

# Restart the container
restart: down start

# Build and start the wordpress website
build:
	docker-compose up -d --build

# Run healthcheck
healthcheck:
	docker-compose run --rm healthcheck

# Stop current running containers
down:
	docker-compose down

# Run the build & healthcheck
install: build healthcheck

# Build and start the wordpress website using wpcli configurations
configure:
	docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f wp-auto-config.yml run --rm wp-auto-config

# Build and start the wordpress website using wpcli configurations
autoinstall: build
	@echo "⚙️ Installing wordpress using wpcli..."
	docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f wp-auto-config.yml run --rm wp-auto-config

# Clean/Delete all installed wordpress & database setup
clean: down
	@echo "💥 Removing related folders/files..."
	@rm -rf  mysql/* wordpress/* wordpress/.htaccess
	@echo "\n⚙️ Related folders/files has been removed..."

# Run wpcli in the terminal
run-wpcli:
	docker-compose run --rm wpcli bash

# Remove all stopped containers
remove-containers:
	docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq)

# Generate source files for custom theme
gen-src:
	@echo -e "⚙️ Generating source files...\n"
ifdef srcDirs
	@mkdir -pv $(srcDirs)
endif
ifdef jsFiles
	touch $(jsFiles)
endif
ifdef sassFiles
	touch $(sassFiles)
endif
	@echo -e "\n⚙️ Source files have been generated..."

NPM Commands

This will automatically opens http://localhost:3000 as you're front page if you used webpack.

# Start the webpack dev server & open the default browser
npm start

# Build a distribution assets for custom theme
npm run build

References