How to setup a simple WordPress development environment using Docker Compose. With detailed explanations and troubleshooting hints.
How to use Docker Compose for WordPress Development
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WordPress Development using Docker CLI
How to run development WordPress and MySQL using Docker CLI. An easy guide with troubleshooting tips to:
– create a MySQL database container,
– create a WordPress web server container,
– connect them with a user-defined bridge network,
– persist data in a named Docker volume, and
– attach a host folder to hold the WordPress installation.
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WordPress Theme Displays Wrong Menu
A quick note about WordPress menus as I’ve just resolved a problem myself. I’m in the middle of trying to create a responsive theme for this blog (using Bootstrap 3.2, if you are interested) and when I added the menu using wp_nav_menu to embed it in header.php, and register_nav_menus to declare it in functions.php I Read More
“Error establishing a database connection” With XAMP, MySQL and WordPress
Thought some people might find it useful to see how I managed to solve this… So, this week I determined to do a little more work on the code for this blog – a new plugin. However, as I have recently updated my laptop I needed to re-install all the tools – Eclipse, Ant, XAMPP Read More
Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): When Upgraded to WordPress 3.1
In case anyone else has the same problem, I saw this error when I upgraded my WordPress 3.0.1 installation to 3.1 using the automatic upgrade. The dashboard worked fine, but when I tried to look at the site itself the page wouldn’t load in IE 8 or Firefox 3.6. With Google Chrome I get the Read More
I’ve Written My Own WordPress Site Theme
OK, so for all you WordPress design experts out there this is not exactly world shattering news, but this has taken me quite a while and several false starts to achieve. As you can see from the new look and feel of the site (if you ever saw it before) I have changed to a Read More
Why so many “Incomming Links” in my Laptop WordPress? Doh!
Ok, so my genius has gone on holiday for the week! When I first came across WordPress I tried it out on my Laptop – IIS 5.1, PHP and MySQL (more posts on related problems later). Nice. Everything worked. Then, I looked at the Dashboard in more detail – amazing, I’ve only just set the Read More
The First Post
So, here it is at last! My blog. It’s only taken about 3 years to get here after I had the idea of putting a few articles and grumbles online so everyone can enjoy (or suffer) it! Unfortunately, I’m too much of a perfectionist and I like to take care of all the details myself. Read More