WordPressLocalDev.md

The Local Development Environment

The supplied local development environment is dependent on Lando, and therefore on Docker. Lando provides WordPress, WP-CLI, xdebug, mailhog, phpmyadmin, etc.

The documentation about installing Lando has OS-specific instructions for installing Docker.

• Install Lando
  • https://docs.devwithlando.io/installation/installing.html
• Start server
  • lando start
• Go to https://caldera.lndo.site and dismiss the HTTPS warning.

Setup xdebug in phpStorm

• Setup path mappings.
  • In preferences, find PHP servers.
  • Add appserver.
  • Map /wordpress to /app/wordpress
  • Map /php-packages to /app/php-packages
  • Map /wordpress/index.php to /app/wordpress/index.php
  • Map /mu-plugins to /app/mu-plugins
  • Map /mu-plugins/plugins/wordpress-plugin/wordpress-plugin.php to /app/mu-plugins/plugins/wordpress-plugin/wordpress-plugin.php
• Turn on debug listening -- phone icon.

Links

• https://joshpress.net/create-a-wordpres-site-with-lando/
• https://docs.devwithlando.io
• https://xdebug.org/