JavaScript WordPress

Open-source JavaScript projects categorized as WordPress

Top 23 JavaScript WordPress Projects

  1. nginxconfig.io

    ⚙️ NGINX config generator on steroids 💉

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. stackedit

    In-browser Markdown editor

  4. gutenberg

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

    Project mention: WordPress and Components | dev.to | 2025-02-27

    Gutenberg as part of the core has added modern capabilities for building sites on the frontend. Blocks, a high-level component resembling React’s, are the basic unit to build a webpage’s frontend nowadays. In my opinion, shortcodes, custom fields and metaboxes will soon be a thing of the past, while Gutenberg will probably take over as a full development platform.

  5. headless-wp-starter

    🔪 WordPress + React Starter Kit: Spin up a WordPress-powered React app in one step

  6. blog-post-workflow

    Show your latest blog posts from any sources or StackOverflow activity or Youtube Videos on your GitHub profile/project readme automatically using the RSS feed

  7. PalaCMS

    Pala (formerly Primo) is a visual CMS for small static websites.

  8. wordpress-seo

    Yoast SEO for WordPress

    Project mention: Shopify vs. WooCommerce: Which One is the Best for Your E-commerce Store in 2025? | dev.to | 2025-03-20

    📌 Want to improve SEO for your WooCommerce store? Check out Yoast SEO.

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. wordpress-playground

    Run WordPress in the browser via WebAssembly PHP

    Project mention: The Static Site Paradox | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-08

    > Or you could just use publii, an office suite of your choice, or type bad html and css by hand, then pass raw files on very cheap hosting providers, enjoying a clunky, and sometimes ugly, "website".

    WordPress folks are working to enable static generation using WordPress Playground. It will work pretty much like Publii does today.

    https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/issues/707

  11. vuejs-wordpress-theme-starter

    A WordPress theme with the guts ripped out and replaced with Vue.

  12. site-kit-wp

    Site Kit is a one-stop solution for WordPress users to use everything Google has to offer to make them successful on the web.

  13. next-wordpress-starter

    📝 Bring WordPress to the static world with Next.js

  14. woo-next

    :rocket: React WooCommerce theme, built with Next JS, Webpack, Babel, Node, Express, using GraphQL and Apollo Client

  15. web-stories-wp

    Web Stories for WordPress

  16. coblocks

    A suite of professional page building content blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor.

  17. gatsby-starter-wordpress

    LOOKING FOR MAINTAINER - - - A GatsbyJS starter template that leverages the WordPress API, ACF and more

  18. create-react-wptheme

    Create modern, React-enabled WordPress themes with a single command.

  19. react-with-wordpress

    :fire: Example of react application to access WordPress REST API

  20. wpress-extract

    A simple Node.js tool for extracting wpress archive files generated by the All-in-one-Wp-Migration Wordpress plugin.

  21. obsidian-wordpress

    An obsidian plugin for publishing docs to WordPress.

  22. gutenberg-section-block

    A section block for Gutenberg

  23. html-to-gutenberg

    Create custom Gutenberg blocks from the HTML templates you already have.

    Project mention: Introducing HTML to Gutenberg: Turn HTML Files into editable Gutenberg Blocks | dev.to | 2025-04-07

    Introducing HTML to Gutenberg: a CLI and webpack plugin that converts valid HTML files into fully functional, dynamic Gutenberg blocks—powered by React in the editor and rendered in either PHP or Twig on the frontend.

  24. block-editor-components

    Reusable components, hooks and helper functions for the WordPress block editor(s).

  25. Maxi Blocks

    Fast-styling web templates for professional site creators. Build better, launch faster.

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source WordPress projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 nginxconfig.io 28,128
2 stackedit 22,095
3 gutenberg 11,271
4 headless-wp-starter 4,506
5 blog-post-workflow 3,136
6 PalaCMS 2,204
7 wordpress-seo 1,850
8 wordpress-playground 1,748
9 vuejs-wordpress-theme-starter 1,617
10 site-kit-wp 1,313
11 next-wordpress-starter 1,249
12 woo-next 895
13 web-stories-wp 773
14 coblocks 770
15 gatsby-starter-wordpress 391
16 create-react-wptheme 364
17 react-with-wordpress 276
18 wpress-extract 232
19 obsidian-wordpress 175
20 gutenberg-section-block 101
21 html-to-gutenberg 78
22 block-editor-components 71
23 Maxi Blocks 57

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