Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Emnes team.
How Sage 11 makes Vite hot module replacement work inside the WordPress block editor iframe. Setup, configuration, troubleshooting, and why it transforms theme development velocity.
Three mainstream WordPress starter theme approaches — Sage, Underscores, and FSE block themes. Honest tradeoffs, decision tree, and when to pick each one for production sites.
A practical guide to building a production WordPress theme with Sage 11 and Tailwind CSS v4 — design system planning, Blade components, block editor integration, Core Web Vitals, and accessibility.
A complete technical tour of Sage 11 — Blade templating, Vite asset pipeline with block editor HMR, Tailwind CSS 4 with auto-generated theme.json, and Acorn-powered service providers.
The Roots.io team launched WP Packages and WP Sec Adv in spring 2026 — a new Composer repository for WordPress plugins and automatic security advisories via composer audit. Complete guide to adoption.
Install ACF Pro, Gravity Forms, WP Rocket and other premium WordPress plugins via Composer with Bedrock. Vendor repositories, Satis, auth.json, license key security, and CI setup.
A complete 10-step playbook for migrating a live WordPress site to Bedrock with zero downtime. Plugin porting, premium plugin Composer setup, database search-replace, staging rehearsal, and cutover.
Everything you need to know about Bedrock — the Composer-based WordPress boilerplate. Directory structure, .env configuration, plugin management, deployment, security, and common pitfalls.
Bedrock 1.30, Sage 11, Trellis drops Vagrant for Lima, new WP Packages + WP Sec Adv, plus Acorn v6 and ecosystem packages. Everything new in Roots.io in 2025–2026.
The complete 2026 guide to the Roots.io WordPress developer stack. Bedrock, Sage, Trellis, Acorn, and Radicle explained — what each tool does, how they fit together, and when to use them.