Local WordPress trial site

Use a separate fictional WordPress installation instead of adding test accounts or identity plugins to a live site. The unanym-trial lab has its own database, WordPress volume and companion plugin mounted from the candidate checkout. Both HTTP and MySQL listen on loopback only.

Create and check the site

From a clean candidate checkout with Docker, Node 24, PHP with Sodium and the browser dependencies available:

npm ci
npm run build
npx playwright install chromium
UNANYM_LAB_NAME=unanym-trial UNANYM_WP_PORT=4402 UNANYM_DB_PORT=44306 \
  bash scripts/wordpress/lab.sh start
UNANYM_LAB_NAME=unanym-trial UNANYM_WP_PORT=4402 UNANYM_ISSUER_PORT=4400 \
  node scripts/wordpress/standalone-rehearse.js

The installer checks the downloaded plugin and WP-CLI hashes and uses pinned WordPress and MySQL images. The rehearsal checks browser sign-in, explicit sharing, a real private page, withdrawal, account linking, outage handling and restore. Its report and screenshots are under data/unanym-trial-wordpress-lab/evidence/. Keep that runtime directory private. The identity service and captured sign-in codes exist only during the rehearsal; no messages are delivered to real inboxes.

WordPress remains available at http://localhost:4402 after the rehearsal. Its native administrator is lab-admin, with the fictional password local-demo-only-2026. These credentials are solely for this loopback lab. The rehearsal removes its temporary private page and probe. Its identity connection cannot work after the temporary host has stopped.

Prepare a person to try the guide

The automated rehearsal is separate from the WordPress setup trial. Before giving that trial to another person, configure a persistent staging identity service, verify real delivery to their authorised test inboxes, register the callback, and hand over the site using the trial's prerequisite list. Clear the rehearsal's connection settings first so the person attempts the setup. Keep the installation local or behind agreed staging access controls; do not publish this lab with its fictional credentials.

Another person has not completed the guide merely because this lab passes. Keep their report separate from the automated evidence.

To pause the lab while retaining its data:

UNANYM_LAB_NAME=unanym-trial bash scripts/wordpress/lab.sh stop

Resume its two existing containers with:

docker start unanym-trial-wp-db unanym-trial-wp

The plugin mount refers to the checkout used to create the lab. Keep that checkout available while using it.