Introducing WP Composer as a WPackagist Replacement WP Composer is a community-owned, open source Composer repository for WordPress plugins and themes — built by Roots as a WPackagist replacement.

Ben and the @roots.io team are always picking up WordPress’s slack and this is no exception. Thanks for your tireless work, y’all.

And if YOU haven’t tried Roots’ tools yet, do it now!

roots.io/introducing-...

Iceberg A beautiful, flexible writing editor for crafting posts and pages with the WordPress block editor

Closest thing I recall seeing is something that was abandoned: useiceberg.com

There might be some old classic editor plugins that do what you want, but they ain’t pretty

Screenshot of Yoast's namespaced dependencies

If you’re bundling Composer dependencies in your WordPress plugin, you need to namespace them. You’re setting up your users for conflicts with other plugins if you don’t implement proper namespacing.

Some @woocommerce.com extensions do it wrong — read how @yoast.com does it right

Site updates look incredible, nice work!

ZeroPoint - A corporate-free website starter project - Get ZeroPoint

Don't call it a relaunch.

ZeroPoint helps you create "marketing" style websites without a monolithic (and increasingly corporate) CMS like WordPress.

Focused on DX, version control, and native web technology, you get: an @11ty.dev base, a CMS, and a new "blocks" system.

Check it

getzeropoint.com

Screenshot of running "wp acorn:seo audit" command using the code from the linked guide below

New Acorn guide: Creating WP-CLI commands with Laravel's Artisan Console

Nice! TIL Sveltia… looks great

`composer remove wpackagist-plugin/safe-svg && composer require roots/allow-svg`

github.com/roots/allow-...

bsky.app/profile/benw...

It's 2025 and you still need a plugin in order to upload SVG files to a WordPress site... and the plugin (safe-svg) used to be fairly minimal, but now it includes a shitty block

The 12 year old ticket that WP core still won't touch: core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24251

Sage v11 and Acorn v5 Released Sage v11 and Acorn v5—featuring Vite, Laravel v12 support, Tailwind CSS v4

Acorn v5 and Sage v11 have been released! Sage is now using @vite.dev for the build system along with Tailwind v4

roots.io/sage-v11-and...

Sunsetting wp-password-bcrypt with WordPress 6.8 With WordPress 6.8 adopting bcrypt for password hashing, `wp-password-bcrypt` is now obsolete.

WordPress 6.8 is bringing native bcrypt password hashing, which means our wp-password-bcrypt package is no longer needed. We're officially sunsetting it:

roots.io/sunsetting-w...

Screenshot of roots/sage from the Map of GitHub

roots/sage in Pressonia (the country of WordPress) from the Map of GitHub

anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/