advanced-custom-fields-pro VS WordPress Packagist

It’s worth it! It provides such amazing features, I cannot imagine myself developing a WordPress site without that plugin now! Besides, you can download the PRO version from GitHub (uploaded by plugin’s owner Elliot Condon, so it’s legal 😎). Of course, it’s not the latest version, but it’s a good demo so you can take a closer look at this plugin.

Thanks for the heads up, I’m just curious I can easily find ACF7 pro on GitHub https://github.com/wp-premium/advanced-custom-fields-pro but I’m on mobile and haven’t checked the code, why would this not work ?

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If I have to use WordPress for something, I'll build it as a standard PHP project, requiring WordPress and any themes/plugins as a Composer dependencies from johnpbloch/wordpress and WordPress Packagist (more info here). If I need to do any significant templating, I like to use Timber.

Use it together with https://wpackagist.org/ and you can update all plugins/themes by latest or by version number.

Another option you can look at is Bedrock by Roots - that is sets WP as an app with composer already set up. It allows you to install WP plugins (from official WP repo) via composer (WP Packagist). The structure is set up to allow for git workflow. Also helpful if you want to make use of a bunch of composer packages on your site.

https://wpackagist.org/ in the example you see "repositories", now in that array you can put your plugins github-link and set the other settings. with composer install you install them and with composer update you update them

Side question: I know that the WordPress ecosystem has been moving toward better support for Composer – e.g., with WPackagist. But wouldn't plugins installed/updated via Composer run into the same issue?