Overview

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service. Use MariaDB (recommended) or Mysql as the external database.

Requirements

MariaDB / MySQL database installed

Runtime arguments

Web UI: http://[IP]:[PORT:80]/
Network: bridge
Shell: sh
Privileged: false

Template configuration

Container portPorttcp

Connects to internal port 80 (Ex. 8080:80)

Target: 80
Value: 8080

wwwPathrw

Container Path: /var/www/html

Target: /var/www/html
Value: /mnt/user/appdata/wordpress

WORDPRESS_DB_HOSTVariable

External database container hostname and port <br>ex. 192.168.1.100:8080

WORDPRESS_DB_USERVariable

External database user

WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORDVariable

External database password

WORDPRESS_DB_NAMEVariable

The WORDPRESS_DB_NAME needs to already exist on the given DB server; it will not be created by the wordpress container.

Links

Template Support Docker Hub Project

Details

Repository

wordpress

Registry

https://hub.docker.com/_/wordpress/

Last Updated2026-05-24

First Seen2020-02-06

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