Yak

Yet Another best-practice WordPress local environment Kandidate.

What's done beyond the default:

• Uses PHP 8.2.
• Composer based project dependencies, with dependency patching.
• WP installed under wordpress/.
• wp-content available under content/.
• ElasticPress ready to rock.
• All tooling provided.

The following tools are installed:

• Plugins: User Switching, Query Monitor, ElasticPress Debug Bar, Redis Object Cache.
• Page caching.
• Object caching via Redis.
• Coding standards (todo)
• Linting (todo)
• Testing framework (todo)

DDEV provides, among the following:

• Email trapping on port 8026
• Simple xdebug
• Works well with Ngrok via ddev share

First start

Under Use this template > Create a new repository to create a copy of this template repository.

Then install the dependencies and launch the environment:

ddev composer install
ddev launch