Quickly installing WordPress with ddev

Quickly installing WordPress with ddev
PHP #ddev #docker #wordpress

As some of you may already know, I really like using ddev to quickly set up a development environment for developing PHP applications.
Every now and then, I also have to wrestle with WordPress. In those cases, being able to automatically set up WordPress locally very quickly is a big help.
Since ddev already supports WordPress itself, full automation is not far off.

For this, I simply created the following script, named it ddev-create-wordpress.sh, and copied it into my local bin directory.

Script

#!/bin/bash

set -e;

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then 
    echo "usage: $0 <directory>";
    exit 1;
fi

DESTINATION=$1;
PROJECT_NAME=$(basename $DESTINATION)

mkdir $DESTINATION

# Work in the new directory
cd $DESTINATION;

# Optional if you have too many SSH keys in your .ssh directory.
# Then create a .ssh/ddev directory and place there only the key you need.
# [[ -d ~/.ssh/ddev ]] && ddev auth ssh -d ~/.ssh/ddev

ddev config --project-name ${PROJECT_NAME} --project-type wordpress

ddev start
ddev exec wp core download

HTTPS_URL=$(ddev describe --json-output | jq '.raw.httpsurl')
WP_CLI="ddev exec php -d error_reporting=E_ERROR /usr/local/bin/wp"

# Automatic installation
$WP_CLI core install \
    --url="$HTTPS_URL" \
    --title="$PROJECT_NAME" \
    --admin_user=admin \
    --admin_password=admin \
    --admin_email="admin@example.com"

$WP_CLI plugin update --all
$WP_CLI --info

echo ""
echo ""
echo "---------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "READY! Please change directory to \"$DESTINATION\"                         "
echo "---------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo ""
echo "Username: admin"
echo "Password: admin"
echo ""

Example invocation

The script can then be made executable with chmod +x and is called as follows.

ddev-create-wordpress.sh <verzeichnis>

The directory name is then used as the project name.

In action, it should look something like this:

ddev WordPress example installation

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