Docker Mounts: Why Local Theme Edits Appear Inside WordPress
The practical difference between Docker named volumes and bind mounts, learned while building a live-editing WordPress theme workflow.
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The practical difference between Docker named volumes and bind mounts, learned while building a live-editing WordPress theme workflow.
Importing production WordPress data also imported security assumptions that made the local administrator login unusable.
An early SoCalNomad clustering experiment exposed the need for multi-story article membership and a better separation between deterministic code and semantic judgment.
A WordPress database import failed because I confused application-friendly names with ISPConfig’s actual multi-tenant database identities.
How I built a safer local WordPress workshop with Docker, MariaDB, real production content, and a bind-mounted child theme.