Headless Wordpress

A WordPress backend serving up content via the WP REST API

The Wordpress Backend includes:

• An installer script which bootstraps a core WordPress installation: This script installs MySQL and WordPress locally in Docker containers.
• WordPress plugins you need to set up custom post types and custom fields (Advanced Custom Fields and Custom Post Type UI).
• WordPress Plugins which expose those custom fields and WordPress menus in the WP REST API (ACF to WP API and WP-REST-API V2 Menus).

Installing

Prerequisite: Before you begin, you need Docker installed. On Linux, you might need to install docker-compose separately.

Docker Compose builds and starts two containers by default: publicsite-db, publicsite-wp:

cd WP-Backend
docker-compose up -d

Wait a few minutes for Docker to build the services for the first time. After the initial build, startup should only take a few seconds.

You can use some useful Docker tools like Kitematic and/or VSCode Docker plugin to follow logs, start / stop / remove containers and images.

With the containers running:

The publicsite-wp container exposes Apache on host port 8080:

• Dashboard: http://localhost:8080/wp-admin (default credentials thomasmuller/bayernMunich)
• REST API: http://localhost:8080/wp-json

Database

The publicsite-db container exposes MySQL on host port 3307.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Postlight for their WordPress + React Starter Kit