Docker image containing Wordpress with preinstalled plugins for JAMstack with graphQL

The docker image uses the original wordpress one without installing Wordpress and installs wp-cli to launch the installation. Then it installs some plugins for develloping front with WP GRAPHQL.

By default here are the following plugins installed :

• WPGraphQL to expose REST API with GraphQL
• Atlas Content Modeler plugin to create new content types with custom fields
• PRyC WP: TinyMCE more buttons to add buttons to the WYSIWYG editor
• Deploy with NetlifyPress to redeploy your static website hosted to Netlify when publicating new content

You can personalize the list by editing the install-wp.sh file.

There is also a custom plugin Redirect with these features :

• redirect front-end to the URL of your choice (see wp-content/themes/redirect/index.php)
• disable Gutenberg (useless with JAMstack) (see use_block_editor_for_post_type filter in wp-content/themes/redirect/functions.php)
• add blog thumbnails (see after_setup_theme action in wp-content/themes/redirect/functions.php)
• expose native custom fields (meta) in GraphQL (see graphql_register_types action in wp-content/themes/redirect/functions.php)
• activate Menu Locations so that you can create menus and expose them with graphQL (see register_nav_menu() function in wp-content/themes/redirect/functions.php)
• allow you to personalize backend CSS (see wp-content/themes/redirect/admin.css)

Built & run

git clone https://github.com/paidge/Docker-wordpress-graphql.git
cd Docker-wordpress-graphql

1. Then edit the .env file
2. Set your front URL in wp-content/themes/redirect/index.php to redirect the front

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d

You can visit the WORDPRESS_URL/wp-login.php and connect to play with Wordpress.

Front pages will redirect to the URL you will have provided in wp-content/themes/redirect/index.php.

For production

Please have a look on: https://github.com/ellakcy/wordpress-with-plugins-deployment-recipe

For production you can install the following plugins to protect your site :

• WPS Hide Login and WPS Limit Login.

It seems there is an infinite redirection to /wp-login.php when they are pre-installed.

Enviromentall variables & configuration

Supports these enviromental variables:

Variable Name	Defalt Value	Description
WORDPRESS_ADMIN_USERNAME	admin	The username of the admin user
WORDPRESS_ADMIN_PASSWORD	admin123	The password of the admin user. PLEASE DO CHANGE WHEN ON PRODUCTION.
WORDPRESS_ADMIN_EMAIL	admin@example.com	The administrator email. (Recomended to change.)
WORDPRESS_URL	localhost	Your site's url. PLEASE SET AS CONTAINERS IP. TESTED WITH THAT
WORDPRESS_TITLE	My localhost site	The title to be displayed when generating the site.
WORDPRESS_LANGUAGE	en_EN	The language of the site.

NOTE: WORDPRESS_ADMIN_USERNAME must have a DIFFERENT value from WORDPRESS_ADMIN_PASSWORD in order to be able to login to wordpress dashboard.

Recomended Running Testing & Reverse proxy settting for deployment

Testing via browser WITHOUT proxy:

On you terminal type:

docker inspect ^container name or hash^

And on the json that has been output look for "IPAddress" visit this ip addresss to your borwser and it will work (with broken urls for assets)

Using apache2 as reverse proxy:

The best way to test it is to use apache2 (or another web server or web proxy) in order to achieve a multi purpose testing and deployment bedrock.

The minimal configutation for apache2 is to enaable:

And create the following virtualhost.

<VirtualHost *:80>

ProxyPass /  ^container's ip^/
ProxyPassReverse  ^container's ip^/ /

</Virtualhost>

Or Alternatively (for development & testing purpose):

<VirtualHost *:80>

ProxyPass /somename  ^container's ip^/
ProxyPassReverse  ^container's ip^/ /somename

</Virtualhost>

Note that the value that replaces ^sites' url^ or ^container's ip^ must be a valid url starting with http or https and ending with / (in order for assets to work)

Using Nginx as reverse proxy

For production use the following settings (with ssl redirection)

server {
	listen 80;
	server_name ^site_url^;

	rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}

server {

	listen 443 ssl;
  ssl_certificate  ^certificate_path^; # managed by Certbot
  ssl_certificate_key ^certificate_key^; # managed by Certbot
  ssl_protocols       TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
  ssl_ciphers         HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;

  server_name ^site_url^;


	location / {
		error_page 502 /502.html;

		proxy_http_version 1.1;
       		proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
       		proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
       		proxy_set_header Host $host;
       		proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
       		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
       		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
       		proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;

        	proxy_pass ^container's ip^;
	}

	location = /502.html{
		root /var/www/ellak.org;
	}
}

Note that the value that replaces ^sites' url^ or ^container's ip^ must be a valid url starting with http or https and ending with / (in order for assets to work)

Further Deployment notes

• When deploying always use a valid url in order to word.
• Even on testing and development please use a webserver as reverse proxy.