sage VS bedrock

Compare sage vs bedrock and see what are their differences.

sage

WordPress starter theme with Laravel Blade components and templates, Tailwind CSS, and a modern development workflow (by roots)

bedrock

WordPress boilerplate with Composer, easier configuration, and an improved folder structure (by roots)
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sage bedrock
53 39
12,518 6,055
0.5% 0.6%
8.4 6.8
10 days ago 17 days ago
PHP PHP
MIT License MIT License
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sage

Posts with mentions or reviews of sage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-16.

bedrock

Posts with mentions or reviews of bedrock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-26.
  • WordPress Core to start using SQLite Database
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2023
  • How do you create WordPress websites for your clients?
    4 projects | /r/webdev | 23 Jun 2023
    There are ready-made boilerplates like Bedrock and Sword but, at an architectural level, I'm not a fan of any I've seen.
  • What is your local wordpress development setup?
    2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 20 Jun 2023
    Node (within the docker container) to build theme assets, composer to manage WordPress core + plugins and other dependencies. I built something similar to Roots for project boilerplate, custom starter theme and in-house mu-plugin within it.
  • Modern Plugin Boilerplate - GIT + PHP8 + Composer
    4 projects | /r/ProWordPress | 20 Jun 2023
    Is this any good? https://roots.io/bedrock/ for a plugin?
  • ManageWP - Yes or no?
    1 project | /r/Wordpress | 3 Mar 2023
    As I only really use it for keeping stuff up to date, I'm looking at using Roots Bedrock for my next project. I'll then be keeping everything up to date via composer.
  • WordPlate: WordPress on Composer with sensible defaults
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2023
    What advantages does WordPlate have over Bedrock[1], some of whose packages WordPlate also uses?

    [1] https://roots.io/bedrock/

  • Version control with git + CI/CD for Wordpress.
    1 project | /r/Wordpress | 9 Feb 2023
    Probably looking for a https://roots.io/bedrock/
  • Need: Someone to setup WP Docker Image on Kubernetes Cluster
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 4 Feb 2023
    WordPress on containers is a very different beast if you actually want to use any of the advantages of containers. You probably need to figure out how to run upgrades by building a new image and not with the WP installer (which you need to disable to not have sudden version rollbacks). You probably want your plugins managed by compose and not a user. You probably want an S3 plugin for media. In fact, you probably want Bedrock. This is not a "single day task", just taking in the requirements and design phase is easily a day or two.
  • Best practices for Git + CI/CD for a whole WordPress site
    1 project | /r/webdev | 12 Jan 2023
    I'd strongly advice using Bedrock ( https://roots.io/bedrock/ ) and possibly even Sage
  • WordPress development with GIT
    4 projects | /r/Wordpress | 20 Sep 2022
    No, as far as I know it’s not that easy to accomplish with WordPress. You can use Bedrock (https://roots.io/bedrock/ ) as a Boilerplate for your development process. The Database can not be cloned to each environment that easily. Because every instance is working on it’s own. So if others want to work on their local machine they need a database dump which they have to setup manually on their machine. The only way that comes in my mind is to set up a development site that is accessible for every developer. You could then connect your local WordPress environment with the database from that development site. Everyone would than be working in the same database and everybody could see the changes someone else is making. But I think that wouldn’t be best practice but could be an option.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sage and bedrock you can also consider the following projects:

understrap - Underscores + Bootstrap = Understrap, the renowned open-source WordPress starter theme.

wordplate - WordPlate is a boilerplate for WordPress, built with Composer and designed with sensible defaults.

wp-bootstrap-navwalker - A custom WordPress nav walker class to fully implement the Twitter Bootstrap 4.0+ navigation style (v3-branch available for Bootstrap 3) in a custom theme using the WordPress built in menu manager.

acf-builder - An Advanced Custom Field Configuration Builder

gutenberg - The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.

PHP-Minecraft-Query - 🐘 PHP library to query Minecraft servers

acf-composer - Compose ACF Fields, Blocks, Widgets, and Option Pages with ACF Builder on Sage 10.

wp-project-skeleton - A skeleton WordPress project to be used as a base for new WordPress projects.

tailpress - TailPress is a minimal boilerplate theme for WordPress using Tailwind CSS.

web.dev - The frontend, backend, and content source code for web.dev

sage-acf-wp-blocks - Composer library for generating ACF Gutenberg blocks from templates. Intended for use with Roots/Sage (http://roots.io)

corcel - Use WordPress backend with Laravel or any PHP application