New service: self-hosted WordPress, sized for running several
independent sites the way a hosting company would, not just one blog.
- Multi-site from the start: every site requires a name (no unnamed
"first instance" special case like mattermost's — there's no
backward-compat reason to special-case one here) and gets its own
directory/container/port, but all sites share ONE MariaDB container
(chain-installed on first site, reused by every other one) instead of
a dedicated database container per site — same resource-sharing idea
as services/coturn.sh, just scoped to WordPress's own sites rather
than shared across different services. Each site gets its own
database + user within that shared instance.
- E-commerce is just WooCommerce, a normal WordPress plugin — no
separate infrastructure. PHP memory_limit/upload_max_filesize/
post_max_size are pre-tuned (256M/64M/64M) so a product-catalog
import doesn't hit default-image limits on the first try.
- wp-cli (official wordpress:cli image, run as a one-off container
sharing the site's html volume) does the initial WordPress core
install non-interactively — title, admin account — so there's no
browser setup wizard to remember per site. Falls back to printing
the exact manual command if the site wasn't ready in time.
- Auto-scans for a free host port per site (multiple sites can't all
bind 8090), matching the "auto-scanned free ports for extras" idea
already used by mattermost's multi-instance support.
- DB and admin passwords are reused across reruns (checked against the
DB-password-regeneration bug class already fixed elsewhere in this
repo, e.g. PR #265) — verified via a real update-mode rerun that the
credential doesn't change.
- setup.sh: is_installed() gets a wordpress case — every site is named
from the first one on, so there's never a plain $DOCKER_DIR/wordpress
directory the default case could match against.
- README.md: added to the utilities services table + copiable list per
CLAUDE.md's three-step rule for new services. Also fixed `coturn`
being in the homelab row's prose but missing from the copiable list
block below it — a pre-existing gap from when coturn.sh was merged.
Verified end-to-end via non-interactive dry runs against a fake docker
shim (no live daemon in this environment): 3 sites installed in
sequence get 3 distinct databases, 3 distinct auto-scanned ports, the
shared DB is only set up once, and an update-mode rerun preserves the
existing DB password rather than regenerating it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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