WordPress Packagist
WordPress Packagist — manage your plugins with Composer (by outlandishideas)
Phpactor
Mainly a PHP Language Server with more features than you can shake a stick at (by phpactor)
| WordPress Packagist | Phpactor | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 9 | |
| 743 | 1,693 | |
| 0.0% | 0.9% | |
| 5.6 | 8.3 | |
| 5 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
WordPress Packagist
Posts with mentions or reviews of WordPress Packagist.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-27.
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WordPress and Components
Similar to Packagist, WPackagist is a PHP package repository. It contains all the themes and plugins hosted on the WordPress plugin and theme directories, making them available to be managed through Composer.
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How do you create WordPress websites for your clients?
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.
- Fullstack but new to WP - Searching for answers
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Is there a package.json equivalent but for plugins?
Use it together with https://wpackagist.org/ and you can update all plugins/themes by latest or by version number.
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How to use Git for Wordpress sites?
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.
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Looking for advice: installing plugin from GitHub on many sites for upgrade
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
- Backdoor in several WP Themes and Plugins from AccessPress
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How should I update plugins in a Git-based workflow with Staging and Production environments?
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?
Phpactor
Posts with mentions or reviews of Phpactor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-22.
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Setting up neovim for Laravel development
PHP Actor is a free alternative that includes the core features you'd expect from an LSP.
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VSCode for PHP and Laravel
# Download phpactor.phar curl -Lo phpactor.phar https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor/releases/latest/download/phpactor.phar
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Sharing my Laravel language server integration progress
The other path is a pull request on https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor/pull/1991 which takes care of the lsp side of things.
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Best Neovim PHP IDE option?
Even I'm a PHPStorm user. I still have neovim installed and using there PHPActor: https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor
- What would be better VS Code or PHP Storm?
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How could I make vim generate boilerplate from my php file every time I create a new file in my project?
Or use phpactor/phpactor with a template to always get it right.
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Working on improved LSP tooling for Laravel blade bringing intellisense to all editors!
Now experimenting more by exposing public properties of a Livewire component via https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor in blade files.
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Does anyone use vim to develop in PHP with Symfony?
Im using this https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor with ncm2 with ale. Im quite happy with it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing WordPress Packagist and Phpactor you can also consider the following projects:
Packagist - Package Repository Website - try https://packagist.com if you need your own -
vscode-intelephense - PHP intellisense for Visual Studio Code
Laminas API Tool Skeleton - Skeleton Application for Laminas API Tools
Rector - Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
Spout - Read and write spreadsheet files (CSV, XLSX and ODS), in a fast and scalable way
Laravel-Zero - A PHP framework for console artisans