Cafe Weather

A WordPress cafe website that recommends drinks based on the weather at a fixed location.

What is included

• cafe-weather-recommender plugin
• cafe-weather-cafe custom theme
• Weather-aware drink recommendations using Open-Meteo
• Custom cafe_drink content type and seeded starter drinks
• Docker Compose setup for local development

Run locally

1. Start Docker Desktop.
2. From the project root, run:

docker compose up -d

3. Open WordPress in your browser:

http://localhost:8080

4. Complete the WordPress installer.
5. In WordPress admin, activate:

• Theme: Cafe Weather Cafe
• Plugin: Cafe Weather Recommender

First run notes

• The plugin creates the main site pages and seeds drink content on activation.
• The homepage uses the [cafe_weather_drinks] shortcode.
• The menu page uses the [cafe_drink_menu] shortcode.

Project files

• docker-compose.yml sets up WordPress and MySQL.
• wp-content/plugins/cafe-weather-recommender/ contains the plugin.
• wp-content/themes/cafe-weather-cafe/ contains the custom theme.
• RUN_WITH_DOCKER.md has quick run instructions.
• FIRST_RUN.md has the installation checklist.

Development

If you change plugin or theme files, refresh the site in your browser. If WordPress does not pick up a change, restart the containers:

docker compose restart