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Bedrock 1.12.3 and Trellis 1.0.2 Released

March 13, 2019

Bedrock has been updated with WordPress 5.1.1, a security and maintenance release. Trellis 1.0.2 includes a few minor changes.

Developing Gutenberg Blocks with Parcel.js and Astroturf

March 13, 2019

How to use Parcel and Astroturf to develop blocks for Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor.

A Workflow for Modern WordPress Plugin Development

March 5, 2019

☘ Clover is a modern WordPress plugin boilerplate which empowers developers throughout the process.

Working With View Composers in Sage 10

February 26, 2019

Composers are new to Sage 10 and are based on Laravel's View Composers. Composers pass data to views when they're rendered.

Bedrock 1.12.2 and WordPress 5.1 Released

February 21, 2019

Bedrock 1.12.2 has been released with support for WordPress 5.1. WordPress 5.1 includes performance improvements to the new editor and more.

Sage 9.0.9 Released

February 13, 2019

Sage 9.0.9 has been released with Bootstrap 4.3.1 support which patches an XSS vulnerability.

Sage 9.0.8 Released

February 11, 2019

Sage 9.0.8 has been released with Bootstrap 4.3.0 support and a few other minor updates.

Bedrock 1.12.0 Released

February 7, 2019

Bedrock 1.12.0 has been released with a couple new features and support for the latest version of vlucas/phpdotenv.

Trellis 1.0.0 Released

January 8, 2019

Trellis 1.0.0 has finally been released. It's been a long and exciting path since the very first commit on Apr 16, 2014 (back when it was first called bedrock-ansible!). That was so long ago the project started on Ubuntu 14.04 and PHP 5.5.

Automate WordPress and Plugin Updates with Composer

December 13, 2018

How to use Dependencies.io to automate WordPress and WordPress plugin updates with Composer. Save yourself some time — especially if you're an agency or freelancer who manages multiple sites.

Announcing the roots/wordpress Composer Package

December 13, 2018

We are excited to announce our new composer package for installing WordPress: roots/wordpress. This is a drop-in replacement for the johnpbloch/wordpress package Bedrock has used since November 2014.

Favorite WordPress Plugins and Utilities

October 16, 2018

A list of some of the most commonly used WordPress plugins and WordPress utilities/Composer packages from the Roots Community.