Volume mount when setting up WordPress with docker

Maybe I’ve found something…

volumes:
   - wp-content:/var/www/html/wp-content

According to this article:

…wp-content contains all user-supplied content. Basically anything you can upload to your site ends up here. That doesn’t include anything you write, mind you. Those things are stored in the WordPress database.

However, as long as you have both the database and your wp-content folder, you can always get your site back, even if everything else was lost.

This is also applied here: Setting up WordPress with Docker

To try it out:

version: '3.3'

services:
  db:
   image: mysql:5.7
   volumes:
     - dbdata:/var/lib/mysql
   restart: always
   environment:
     MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: somewordpress
     MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
     MYSQL_USER: wordpress
     MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress

  wordpress:
   depends_on:
     - db
   image: wordpress:latest
   volumes:
     - wp-content:/var/www/html/wp-content
   ports:
     - "8000:80"
   restart: always
   environment:
     WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306
     WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress
     WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress

volumes:
  dbdata:
  wp-content: