Rudel

Request-selected WordPress overlay environments for sandboxes. What is Rudel? Rudel is a WordPress plugin for running disposable overlay sandboxes inside one normal WordPress installation. A sandbox is selected per request with a trusted header, Rudel cookie, or CLI environment variable. Once selected, Rudel switches WordPress to that sandbox's cloned database tables and copied active theme. Host WordPress core, plugins, uploads, and users remain shared by default. Rudel does not require multisite. It does not use SQLite. Runtime metadata is stored only in host WordPress MySQL tables. Requirements - PHP 8.2+ - WordPress 6.4+ - MySQL/MariaDB through the normal WordPress database connection - write access to wp-config.php during initial runtime bootstrap installation Quick Start Create a sandbox: Run WP-CLI against a sandbox: Route an HTTP request to a sandbox: Runtime Model Every Rudel environment is a sandbox overlay: - Each sandbox has its own WordPress table prefix, for example wpa4nmv7. - Each sandbox gets a copied active theme under wp-content/rudel-environments/{id}/themes/{theme}. - Child themes keep their parent template relationship; Rudel copies the chi