Docker development setup for WooCommerce with WP-ENV.
Please install WP-ENV before getting started. You can find more about WP-ENV on here.
The following command installs WP-ENV globally.
npm -g i @wordpress/env
If you don't already have pnpm installed, you can quickly add it using NPM.
npm install -g pnpm
- Navigate to the root of WooCommerce source code.
- Start the docker container by running
wp-env start
You should see the following output
WordPress development site started at http://localhost:8888/
WordPress test site started at http://localhost:8889/
MySQL is listening on port 55003
The port # might be different depending on your .wp-env.override.json
configuration.
Once you have WP-ENV container up, we need to run a few commands to start developing.
- Run
pnpm install
to install npm modules. - Run
pnpm nx build woocommerce
to build core. - Run
pnpm nx composer-install woocommerce
to install PHP dependencies.
If you don't have Composer available locally, run the following command. It runs the command in WP-ENV container.
wp-env run composer composer install
You might also want to run pnpm start
to watch your CSS and JS changes if you are working on the frontend.
You're now ready to develop!
Please refer to WP-ENV official README section for setting up Xdebug.
The default configuration comes with PHP 7.4, WooCommerce 5.0, and a few WordPress config values.
You can create .wp-env.override.json
file and override the default configuration values.
You can find more about .wp-env.override.json
configuration here.
Example: Overriding PHP version to 8.0
Create .wp-env.override.json
in the root directory with the following content.
{
"phpVersion": "8.0"
}
Exampe: Adding a locally installed plugin
Method 1 - Adding to the plugins
array
Open the default .wp-env.json
and copy plugins
array and paste it into the .wp-env.override.json
and add your locally installed plugin. Copying the default plugins
is needed as WP-ENV does not merge the values of the plugins
.
{
"plugins": [
"./plugins/woocommerce",
"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-crontrol.1.10.0.zip"
]
}
Method 2 - Adding to the mappings
This method is simpler, but the plugin does not get activated on startup. You need to manually activate it yourself on the first startup.
{
"mappings": {
"wp-content/plugins/wp-crontrol": "../woocommerce"
}
}
The MySQL port can change when you restart your container.
You can get the current MySQL port from the output of wp-env start
command.
- Open your choice of MySQL tool.
- Use the following values to access the MySQL container.
- You can omit the username and password.
Name | Value |
---|---|
Host | 127.0.0.1 |
Username | |
Password | |
Port | Port from the command |
Run the following command to ssh into the container
wp-env run wordpress /bin/bash
You can run a command in the container with the following syntax. You can find more about on the run
command here
Syntax:
wp-env run :container-type :linux-command