It Works On My Machine, So Let’s Make My Machine Everyones Machine. Developing For WordPress Locally.

This talk will cover the following points:

  • why containerization is the best thing since sliced bread
  • how a simple WordPress setup looks
  • some ideas on more advanced things you can do with Docker (Makefiles to init everything, clear logs, etc)
  • where containerization and Docker can potentially fail you in the above setup
  • intro to Lando for cross-platform development and some ideas on more advanced things you can do with Lando
  • some ideas on how to escape from the tooling hell via containerization and composer (installing wp-cli; configuring the wordpress testing suite; hooking into wordpress filters to load images locally if they exist, but falling back to production urls if they do not – and doing this for both multisite and non-multisite).

There will be a repo people can reference for more information if they’re interested and slides that reference the repo.

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