WordPress Local Development Environment

This project provides a way to run/develop WordPress sites locally, before publishing changes to a live site.

The primary tool to do this is Docker.

Usage

Kick off the web and database servers with docker:

docker-compose up

Introducing a site

Add each WordPress site to the sites directory.

If your website folder is my-website, the resulting website should be visible at: http://locahost/my-website/

Add database

Use a MySQL client to connect to the local database running at: localhost:4306

Updating URLs

The URLs in the database need to up updated for the site to work locally.

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = REPLACE(option_value, 'http://my-website.com', 'http://localhost/my-website');

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'http://my-website.com', 'http://localhost/my-website');

Don't forget to do the reverse if uploading database to a live server.