Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Emnes team.
A complete overview of the modern WordPress developer stack in 2026 — Composer for dependencies, Vite for assets, Tailwind for CSS, Blade for templating, Trellis for provisioning, and testing/CI/observability.
Honest comparison of building the Roots stack manually vs buying Radicle. Setup time, directory structure, long-term maintenance, license cost, and a decision framework.
Radicle combines Bedrock, Sage, Acorn, and curated mu-plugins into a Laravel-style WordPress project. What is in the box, when it is worth the license, and how to start a new project.
Replace hundreds of lines of register_post_type boilerplate with a declarative config file. Acorn Post Types handles label generation, admin columns, filters, and taxonomy integration.
Versioned database schema changes in WordPress using Acorn. Writing migrations, deploy integration, handling the wp_ prefix, and backward-compatible schema changes for zero-downtime deploys.
How Acorn loads a Laravel application inside WordPress — Blade, Eloquent, service container, migrations, queues, and console commands. The bridge that powers Sage 11 and Radicle.
Honest comparison of Trellis self-hosted WordPress vs managed hosting like Kinsta and WP Engine. Cost analysis, operational burden, performance, control, and how to pick between them in 2026.
A complete walkthrough of provisioning a production-grade WordPress server with Trellis — nginx, PHP 8.3, MariaDB, Redis, Let’s Encrypt, fail2ban, and UFW, all in one Ansible playbook.
Trellis dropped Vagrant for Lima VMs in October 2025. Why the switch happened, how to migrate an existing project, and what the day-to-day Lima workflow looks like for WordPress.
How Trellis uses Ansible and the symlink-flip pattern to deploy WordPress with zero downtime. Release directories, deploy hooks, instant rollback, and CI/CD integration.