Advanced WordPress Development Tools
Build better WordPress sites with modern development workflows, Composer, Laravel components, and automated deployment.
roots/radicle
Radicle is an opinionated starting point for WordPress projects with the Roots stack
roots/acorn
Integrate Laravel functionality into WordPress projects
roots/bedrock
WordPress boilerplate with Composer and Git, easier configuration, and an improved folder structure
roots/sage
WordPress starter theme with Laravel Blade components and templates, Tailwind CSS, and block editor support
roots/trellis
WordPress LEMP stack with PHP 8.3, Composer, WP-CLI and more
roots/wp-packages
Manage your WordPress plugins and themes with Composer
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Some WordPress SEO plugins claim Markdown support for AI agents, but ignore the Accept: text/markdown header that Claude Code and other agents actually send.
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I'm a big fan of Bedrock (and all of Roots in general)
Bedrock is like the bridge between WordPress and the rest of PHP
In my opinion, the roots.io toolkit is the most sane way to do WordPress in 2023
Roots' distros have been essential to jumping back into WordPress devel after a decade out. Until WP quits being an antiquated, monetized pit of code, this is all that’s holding my sanity in check.
Bedrock is doing a huge service to the WordPress community, and I can see it being adopted as the standard for WordPress development. Hopefully as more people adopt it, the developer community at large will view WordPress sites on similar footing as more “professional” platforms.
I'm supporting a modern marketing team, still on WordPress, and pairing it with Claude. The trick is skipping page builders. We run a custom PHP theme on Bedrock, which gives us git, CI/CD, and a codebase Claude can actually work in. New features ship fast, landing pages take minutes, and the plugin list is tiny. Page builders are the agent-unfriendly part. WordPress itself is fine.
If you have to use WordPress, use Bedrock for your web app and Sage to develop your custom theme. Any Laravel developer will feel at home in these tools.
I think 2 years ago I tweeted to y'all to say I love Sage -- now I'm getting started with Bedrock and loving it! thank you for making me feel like WordPress can be sane, secure, and modern.
There's a massive divide in WordPress right now. On one side, page builders — great for speed, but a mess of DOM bloat and heavy scripts under the hood. On the other, the modern stack: Bedrock and Sage. This is WordPress treated as professional software engineering. Treat plugins as dependencies via Composer, replace spaghetti PHP with Blade, and ship only the CSS and JS you actually use.
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