Kickstart WordPress projects with a sane development environment!

Requirements

To start a project you need to download and install Docker and of course Git.

Clone and get started

Once Docker is installed and running, run these commands from your terminal window:

git clone -o gitium git@github.com:presslabs/gitium-base AWESOME_SITE

Connect to your remote git repo

cd AWESOME_SITE
git remote add origin git@github.com:GITHUB_USERNAME/AWESOME_SITE
git branch main --set-upstream-to origin/main
git push origin main

Start the local environment

Linux and Windows (with WSL), if the above command returns errors:

USER_ID="$(id -u)" GROUP_ID="$(id -g)" docker compose up

DB import

• Get a database dump from your hosting provider
• Download it locally and unpack it
• Import the database into your local MySQL:

cat database.sql | docker compose exec -T db mysql -u wordpress -pnot-so-secure wordpress

• Connect to the wordpress container:

docker compose exec wordpress bash

• Clear the cache from WP-CLI:

Done!

Go to http://localhost:8080/wp-admin/ from your browser and log in to the local development environment.

Runtime extensions

We offer some extensions to the default configuration that allow you to change the running mode.

Enable SSL

1. Generate a key and a certificate and place them in the root directory of the project under the names certificate.key and certificate.crt.

2. Run docker compose overwriting the default ssl config like this:

docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml -f .dev/docker-compose.ssl.yaml up

Run as root

docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml -f .dev/docker-compose.run-as-root.yaml up

Run with Elastic Search

docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml -f .dev/docker-compose.es.yaml up