How We Audited Our Own WordPress SEO Plugin (In Public)
The multi-agent audit process we ran on our own SEO plugin, the three feature-breaking bugs we found, and every fix that shipped as a result.
Category: Plugins
Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Emnes team.
The Modern WordPress Developer Toolkit: Why Composer, Vite, and Tailwind Belong in Every Project
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.
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Bedrock + Sage + Acorn vs Radicle: Choosing the Right Roots Starting Point
Honest comparison of building the Roots stack manually vs buying Radicle. Setup time, directory structure, long-term maintenance, license cost, and a decision framework.
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Radicle: The Complete Guide to the All-in-One Roots.io Starter Template
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.
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Acorn Explained: How Laravel Features Work Inside WordPress
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.
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WP Packages and WP Sec Adv: The Future of WordPress Dependencies in Composer
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.
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Managing Premium WordPress Plugins with Composer, Bedrock, and Private Repositories
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.
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How to Migrate an Existing WordPress Site to Bedrock Without Downtime
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.
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Bedrock: The Complete Guide to Composer-Based WordPress Development
Everything you need to know about Bedrock — the Composer-based WordPress boilerplate. Directory structure, .env configuration, plugin management, deployment, security, and common pitfalls.
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What’s New in the Roots.io Ecosystem: A Year of Major Releases (2025–2026)
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.
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