Radicle is an opinionated starting point for WordPress projects with the Roots stack

Radicle improves the WordPress developer experience.

Save time and streamline your workflow by getting our preferred setup of Acorn, Bedrock, Sage, and Trellis.

Laravel and WordPress integration

Acorn allows you to integrate Laravel within WordPress so that you can utilize Laravel in your WordPress projects

Advanced folder structure

Improved developer experience by adopting Laravel’s folder structure, starting from the root

Theme files are private

Theme files (pre-built front-end assets & templates) live outside of the public web directory

REST API & Eloquent Models

Build Laravel-style APIs with WordPress using Eloquent models and REST endpoints for modern data handling

Everything in Radicle

Acorn configured from the root of your project
- Laravel-like setup that makes it easy to navigate your project during development
Advanced block development with make:block command
- Scaffold new blocks instantly with the wp acorn make:block command
- Dynamic blocks with server-side rendering and API integration
- Example blocks with Blade components and Alpine.js integration
Configuration-based theme setup with typography system
- Register and configure menus, sidebars, and theme supports from config/theme.php
- Built-in typography components and editor styling for consistent design
Configuration-based registration of custom post types and taxonomies
- Register and configure post types and taxonomies from config/post-types.php
Laravel folder structure
- Bedrock has been modified to use the public/ directory as the public web root. Laravel devs will be familiar with other top level directories such as app/ , config/ , resources/ , and storage/ .
Laravel route support
- Routes can serve up views similar to how you might have created "virtual pages" for WordPress. Routes are perfect for pages that don't need to be managed from the WordPress admin.
Easier access to theme and build files
- All of your theme templates are located at resources/views/ . No more navigating 7 levels deep to get to your templates — they're just 2 levels away.
- Theme directory only contains index.php and style.css files.
Recommended WordPress plugins, utilities, and Laravel packages included
- Extended CPTs, Allow SVG, Query Monitor.
- Acorn Prettify, Acorn Mail, Ignition, Blade Icons.
Starter Alpine.js and Blade based components
- Button component
- Modal component and block
Comprehensive testing & CI setup
- GitHub Actions for checking code linting and formatting
- End-to-end testing with Playwright
- PHP unit testing with Pest
- Complete testing documentation and style guides
Configuration for local and remote environment tools^*
- Lando config for local development
- Trellis for local development and/or server setup and deployment
- Easy setup with trellis new command for streamlined project initialization
*Lando and Trellis are completely optional
Laravel-style email integration
- Acorn Mail package for sending emails using Laravel's mail system
- Mailables, notifications, and queue support within WordPress