# WPDockerize: WordPress with Docker, made simple

> wpdockerize is an npm package for creating a Docker stack for WordPress

- Autore / Author: Diego Betto (https://diegobetto.com/about/)
- Pubblicato / Published: 2025-03-26
- URL: https://diegobetto.com/en/wpdockerize-wordpress-on-docker/
- Tag: wordpress, docker, npm

## Motivation

Every time we start working with **WordPress**, the choice for the stack to run this beloved CMS on falls on **Docker**: there are a couple of ways to run it, but the most convenient for completeness is using `docker compose` and building the whole stack with WordPress, MySQL, PHP, mail, etc.

Writing that `docker-compose.yml` by hand every time is repetitive though, so I built an NPM package that handles it for us: `wpdockerize`.

## wpdockerize

You'll find it here: [https://www.npmjs.com/package/wpdockerize](https://www.npmjs.com/package/wpdockerize)

## Installing wpdockerize

Installation is very simple, just run

`npm install -g wpdockerize`

and the package is then available globally. Obviously we need NPM (and thus Node.js) installed as a requirement.

## Running wpdockerize

To launch it just run

`wpdockerize`

![Terminal showing the wpdockerize interactive wizard asking for WordPress configuration options](../../../media/wpdockerize-run.jpg)

and after a series of simple questions your `docker-compose.yml` will be ready. All you need to do then is run

`docker-compose up -d`

to start your WordPress with the desired configuration.

> **Small note**
>
> depending on your system you might need to use `docker compose` instead of `docker-compose`

Once the stack is up, if you also need a handy way to manage the containers from a web interface, I've also written a guide on [how to update Portainer](https://diegobetto.com/portainer-update/).

Have fun! 😃