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lokl

Instant WordPress local development for Mac, Win & Linux

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
75GitHub stars
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What it is

Instant WordPress local development for Mac, Win & Linux

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-01-22 15:01:30 UTC to 2021-04-03 22:45:09 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 182021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 222021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 29

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jan 182021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 252021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 12021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 82021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 152021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 222021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 12021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 82021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 152021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 222021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 292021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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It might be worth mentioning that Lokl [0] seems to be from the same author [1] as the "wp2static" plugin [2], my and many others go to for static site generation of WordPress. I find Lokl and interesting take, although the usual self-serve script is kind of annoying for power users (what I mean is that this bash scripts tried to do everything for you and it's less transparent), I recommend the repo [4] as the source of the actual Dockerfiles, that you could just reference in something like a docker-compose setup. The Dockerfiles are kind of surprising since they read more like a an ansible-playbook than like a Dockerfile. This one image has it all - php, nginx, mariadb, phpmyadmin and who knows what else [4]. It's an interesting approach to Docker images, certainly against the recommendation but might have some good reasoning for somethi
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