WordPress Projects Roundup: October 2025

Ben Word on 2025-10-24

Here are some WordPress projects we’ve been bookmarking lately. These are tools and packages we think will be useful for developers working on modern WordPress projects:

WordPress plugins

WindPress

Use Tailwind CSS within the block editor, page builders, plugins, and themes without a build step. It’s built on top of the WordPress REST API and seamlessly integrates with popular page builders.

A PHP package streamlining the configuration of WordPress instances using environment variables. Designed specifically for Composer-based WordPress setups like Bedrock, it consolidates configuration that would normally be scattered across multiple files and plugins into a single, standardized set of environment variables.

WP Loupe

WP Loupe completely replaces WordPress’s default search with a SQLite-based search engine that’s both lightning-fast and forgiving of typos. The plugin creates dedicated search indexes that update automatically as content changes, supporting advanced features like phrase matching with quotation marks, exclusion operators, and customizable field weights for relevance scoring.

WP Thumbhash

This plugin automatically generates compact image placeholders using the ThumbHash algorithm, providing a better user experience for lazy-loaded images. Instead of blank spaces or generic loading indicators, visitors see a blurred preview of the actual image while the full version loads.

Contextual Link Weaver

Contextual Link Weaver is an intelligent internal linking assistant that leverages Google’s Gemini AI to analyze your content and suggest relevant internal links. The plugin integrates into the block editor with a sidebar panel that provides one-click link insertion.

Composer packages

WordPress API Content Migration

This package provides Artisan commands for migrating content between WordPress sites using the REST API, making it a good fit for Acorn-based projects. It handles content migration including taxonomies, media, posts, and pages with a step-by-step confirmation process to prevent accidental data loss.

WordPress ORM with Eloquent

This library brings Laravel’s Eloquent ORM to WordPress, using the native wpdb connection so there’s zero additional database configuration required. It includes pre-built models for core WordPress entities like posts, comments, users, and their associated meta tables, plus support for common post types like articles, attachments, and pages.

Got any suggestions?

If you’ve got any project suggestions, including anything you’ve made yourself, shoot me a DM on Roots Discourse or our Discord server!