# Using Wordpress

> Wordpress is a popular CMS that you can use with this kit. Learn how to set it up and use it in your project.

*Canonical: https://makerkit.dev/docs/tanstack-drizzle/content/wordpress*

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The Wordpress implementation is used when the host app's environment variable is set as:

```bash
CMS_CLIENT=wordpress
```

Additionally, please set the following environment variables:

```bash
WORDPRESS_API_URL=http://localhost:8080
```

For development purposes, we ship a Docker container that runs a Wordpress instance. To start the container, run:

```bash
docker-compose up
```

or

```bash
pnpm run start
```

from this package's root directory.

The credentials for the Wordpress instance are:

```bash
WORDPRESS_DB_HOST=db
WORDPRESS_DB_USER=wordpress
WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD=wordpress
WORDPRESS_DB_NAME=wordpress
```

You will be asked to set up the Wordpress instance when you visit `http://localhost:8080` for the first time.

## Note for Wordpress REST API

To make the REST API in your Wordpress instance work, please change the permalink structure to `/%post%/` from the Wordpress admin panel.

## Blog

To include Blog Posts from Wordpress - please create a **post** with category named `blog` and add posts to it.

## Documentation

To include Documentation from Wordpress - please create a **page** with category named `documentation` and add pages to it.

This **involves enabling categories for pages. To do this, add the following code to your theme's `functions.php` file:

```php
function add_categories_to_pages() {
    register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category', 'page');
}
add_action('init', 'add_categories_to_pages');
```

Please refer to `wp-content/themes/twentytwentyfour/functions.php` for an example of a theme that includes this code.

## Language Filtering

To make the language filtering work, please add a tag with the language name to the post. For example, if you have a post in English, add the tag `en` to it, and if you have a post in German, add the tag `de` to it.

This CMS integration is part of the [TanStack Start Drizzle SaaS Kit](/drizzle).

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**Next:** [Creating your own CMS implementation](./creating-your-own-cms-client)