Setup Docker I use a package manager called to install/uninstall software when I can. If you have chocolatey setup, just run the following command to install docker: chocolatey choco install docker-desktop Kitematic provides a visual interface to docker, so if you don't care much for the command line, I'd recommend installing that as well: choco install docker-kitematic Starting Docker After the installation has finished, log out then back in. Run docker desktop by pressing the Windows key and searching for docker desktop. Once docker is ready, you'll see the icon in the system tray stop animating and a login window will appear. The last step is to make sure Docker is working. Open a new PowerShell window and run the following command: docker run hello-world You should see output indicating that Docker is running. Run WordPress in Docker Now that Docker is set up on your system we can start WordPress. Since WordPress requires an instance of MySql running to store all of its data, we need to run two containers and connect them. We'll also want their data to persist if we stop the containers and restart them later. To accomplish this we create a docker-compose file, with volumes for each container. Save the following file as . docker-compose.yml version: "3.3" services: db: image: mysql:5.7 volumes: - db_data: /var/lib/mysql ports: - "3306:3306" restart: always environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: somewordpress MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress MYSQL_USER: wordpress MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress wordpress: depends_on: - db image: wordpress:latest volumes: - wordpress: /var/www/html ports: - "8000:80" restart: always environment: WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306 WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress WORDPRESS_DB_NAME: wordpress volumes: db_data: {} wordpress: {} Open a shell in the directory where you saved the docker-compose file and run . After a few minutes, you'll have WordPress running on your machine. docker-compose up -d Running WordPress Install Before you can start writing plugins for WordPress, you need to run through the setup pages on your new server. Browse to and follow the instructions. http://localhost:8000/wp-admin/install.php Creating a Plug-in To create a plugin, you need to add a folder in WordPress' directory. To find the root directory, open kitematic by clicking on the docker icon in the system tray and selecting from the menu. plugins kitematic Now select the WordPress container on the left side of the window, and click under the list of volumes on the right side. /var/www/html This will open Windows Explorer with the folder selected. Open it, then browse to . Create a new folder called first-plugin then open it. Create a file called inside the new folder and paste the following code into it: html wp-content->plugins index.php <?php /**
* Plugin Name: First Plugin
* Plugin URI: https://voiceify.io
* Description: Your very first plugin!
* Version: 1.0
* Author: Ben Force
* Author URI: https://twitter.com/theBenForce
* License: GPLv2 or later
**/ Save the file and browse to , you should your plugin in the list. http://localhost:8000/wp-admin/plugins.php I hope this tutorial has given you a good starting point that's easier than installing a PHP server and MySQL. Let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.

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