WordPress Local Docker (WLD)

Yes, just another WordPress Site Local Docker environment. I wanted to create something:

• Lightweight.
• Dependency free.
• Takes care of common installation workflows for different architectures i.e. Multisite.
• Easily scaffold a wp-content only version controlled project.

Prerequisites

• Docker: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/
• Docker Compose v2: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Usage

Once you've cloned this repo, cd into it.

wld scaffold

This is the automated (Recommended) approach.

sh wld scaffold

Answer prompts and/or hit enter/return to select defaults. Once you've responded to last prompt, you should see something resembling below.

If you're happy with the details, respond with y. This will:

• Create a directory, housing your sites local file system, inside ./sites using the domain you specified.
• Prompt for password and/or boimetric authentication to generate necessary certs. NB: macOS or mkcert required.
• Generate site specific Nginx conf.
• Build docker-compose or restart the nginx container.

Once above has concluded you should see the below in your terminal.

Site created, visit: https://test.local/wp-admin

WP CLI

For ease of use, a command for submitting WP CLI commands to the relevant site on the PHP container was created.

wld site test.local -- wp user list
# Or from within a `sites/test.local` directory
wld -- wp user list

VS.

docker compose exec php wp user list --allow-root --path="/var/www/html/test.local"

Beware:

• Only subdomain Multisite is supported in wld scaffold
• Cert generation can only be done on macOS or if mkcert is installed
• All WordPress sites run on the same Nginx/PHP services. This might change in the future i.e. different PHP/Nginx versions per/site. This is technically possible, but would require manual intervention and remove ablity to stay in sync with this code base.