WpHeadless

Wordpress Headless Bundle to build great API-powered websites, apps and services.

What is WpHeadless?

WpHeadless is Wordpress Multisite bundle providing API-only or Headless implementation of the CMS and static site web-server. It comes with fully automated docker based workflow to setup and maintain CMS service on your own server or https://localhost.

tl;dr

$ git clone /~https://github.com/WpHeadless/wpheadless.git && wpheadless/run-task install
$ open https://localhost

Features

• Docker is the only dependency (not)
• HTTPS only
• SSL/TLS certificates: Letsencrypt, Self-signed, mkcert
• Nightly backup
• Wordpress Multisite secure setup
• Static web-server vhost routing
• SMTP server for sending emails
• Fine tuned /wp-admin for headless use-case

Install

There are two executable files in the project root:

• ./docker-compose - docker-compose wrapper. Use it just like real docker-compose.
• ./run-task - Task runner executing scripts from tasks/ directory in containers.

Use run-task to install WpHeadless.

Usage: ./run-task [OPTIONS] install

Options:
  --domain          : Domain to install WpHeadless on. Default: localhost.
  --admin-email     : Admin user email. Default webmaster@example.com or webmaster@${DOMAIN} when DOMAIN is set.
  --admin-password  : Wordpress admin password. If not given a random password will be generated.
  --letsencrypt     : Request certificate with letsencrypt if set to "true".
  --docker-profile  : Docker configuration profile: aws
  --aws-logs-group  : Aws logs group name for docker awslogs driver

For example:

• ./run-task install - installs https://localhost
• ./run-task install --domain=example.com - installs https://example.com

$ ./run-task install \
  --domain=example.com \
  --admin-email=webmaster@example.com \
  --from-email=no-reply@example.com \
  --admin-password='1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8' \
  --letsencrypt=true \
  --docker-profile=aws \
  --aws-use-ec2-iam-role=true \
  --aws-logs-group=example-com-whpeadless

When password is not specified a random one is generated and sent to stdout.

Scheduler

WpHeadless contains scheduler service powered by cron running in dedicated lightweight container.

Jobs executed by scheduler:

• Nightly backup
• Letsencrypt certificate renew or issue

Docker service containers

• nginx: nginx
• mysql: mariadb
• php: wpheadless/wp-php-fpm
• smtp: namshi/smtp
• cron: docker

Docker run-task images

./run-task runs scripts from tasks/ inside temporary containers using following images:

• certbot/certbot
• wordpress:cli

Similar projects

There are other projects sharing the same idea of using Wordpress as API-only CMS.

• WordPress + React Starter kit /~https://github.com/postlight/headless-wp-starter
• Rooftop CMS /~https://github.com/rooftopcms/rooftop-cms

Content as a service (CaaS) providers

• https://contentful.com
• https://prismic.io