Wordpress Dev Environment

This is a dev environment for testing out the talk-wp-plugin with Coral.

Usage

• Spin up the mysql and wordpress containers:

  cd wordpress
  docker-compose up
  

• Close the terminal after docker-compose runs

• Spin up Coral and add http://localhost:8081 to a new or existing site so the new Wordpress URL is allowed.

• Navigate to http://localhost:8081.

• Follow the steps to create a new admin user for the wordpress deployment.

• Install the plugin from talk-wp-plugin by downloading the source code and zipping it up into a .zip archive.

• Navigate to http://localhost:8081/wp-admin/plugins.php and click Add New Plugin.

• From there, click Upload Plugin.

• Point it to the talk-wp-plugin archive you created from its source code.

• Enable the Coral plugin in the Installed Plugins list if it is not already enabled.

• Go to Settings > Coral Settings and set the Server Base URL to http://localhost:3000 or http://localhost:8080 based on whether you're running Coral standalone or in watch mode.

• Set the Coral stream version to v5+.

• Head to Appearance > Themes and select the oldest theme you can find (Twenty Twenty-Two as of this writing) as the Coral plugin can't override the PHP for comments in newer themes yet.

  • If you need to set this manually, check the README on the talk-wp-plugin repo for how to edit the theme to show Coral comments.