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Open-source PHP projects categorized as WordPress

Top 23 PHP WordPress Projects

  1. sage

    WordPress starter theme with Laravel Blade components and templates, Tailwind CSS, and block editor support

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. WooCommerce

    A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.

    Project mention: The Future of E-commerce: Integrating AI into WooCommerce for Personalized Shopping Experiences | dev.to | 2025-08-28

    WooCommerce Official Site – https://woocommerce.com/

  4. bedrock

    WordPress boilerplate with Composer and Git, easier configuration, and an improved folder structure

  5. timber

    Create WordPress themes with beautiful OOP code and the Twig Template Engine (by timber)

  6. argon-theme

    📖 Argon - 一个轻盈、简洁的 WordPress 主题

  7. wp-cli

    ⚙️ WP-CLI framework

    Project mention: Solved: Stop blaming “plugins” when your WordPress site is slow | dev.to | 2025-12-27

    WordPress Integration: Install a WordPress object cache drop-in (e.g., from the WP-CLI project or a plugin like Redis Object Cache). Copy the object-cache.php file to your wp-content directory.

  8. corcel

    Use WordPress backend with Laravel or any PHP application

  9. wp-graphql

    :rocket: GraphQL API for WordPress

    Project mention: WordPress, Ghost, Hugo? The great CMS war | dev.to | 2025-08-28

    WPGraphQL GraphQL endpoint for headless setups (yes, it’s legit)

  10. RED_HAWK

    All in one tool for Information Gathering, Vulnerability Scanning and Crawling. A must have tool for all penetration testers

  11. 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.

  12. CMB2

    CMB2 is a developer's toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind.

  13. plugin-update-checker

    A custom update checker for WordPress plugins. Useful if you don't want to host your project in the official WP repository, but would still like it to support automatic updates. Despite the name, it also works with themes.

  14. wordplate

    A boilerplate for WordPress, built with Composer and designed with sensible defaults.

  15. S3-Uploads

    The WordPress Plugin to Store Uploads on Amazon S3

  16. jetpack

    Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.

    Project mention: Flat Rate Website Acceleration Tools for Agencies | dev.to | 2026-01-07

    Jetpack Complete bundles security, backups, performance, and design tools. Flat rate for up to 10,000 sites.

  17. amp-wp

    Enable AMP on your WordPress site, the WordPress way.

  18. wp2static

    WordPress static site generator for security, performance and cost benefits

  19. advanced-custom-fields-pro

    Advanced Custom Fields Pro, Git-ified. Automatically synced via GitHub Actions! This repository is just a mirror of the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin. Please do not send pull requests and issues.

  20. ElasticPress

    A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.

  21. air-light

    💨 WordPress starter theme - designed to be dependency-free, minimal, ultra-lightweight (< 20 kB) and easy for all kinds of WordPress projects. We prefer the original WordPress way of doing things - no strange templating languages or frameworks here.

  22. wordpress-static-site-exporter

    One-click WordPress plugin that converts all posts, pages, taxonomies, metadata, and settings to Markdown and YAML which can be dropped into Jekyll (or Hugo or any other Markdown and YAML based site engine).

  23. storefront

    Official theme for WooCommerce

  24. wordpress-admin-style

    This plugin reference elements from wp-admin in an overview with the necessary markup and CSS classes to help you to develop WordPress compliant.

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 PHP? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 sage 13,218
2 WooCommerce 10,340
3 bedrock 6,525
4 timber 5,649
5 argon-theme 5,512
6 wp-cli 5,104
7 corcel 4,781
8 wp-graphql 3,780
9 RED_HAWK 3,597
10 wp-bootstrap-navwalker 3,334
11 CMB2 3,017
12 plugin-update-checker 2,535
13 wordplate 2,173
14 S3-Uploads 2,140
15 jetpack 1,812
16 amp-wp 1,804
17 wp2static 1,460
18 advanced-custom-fields-pro 1,348
19 ElasticPress 1,297
20 air-light 1,151
21 wordpress-static-site-exporter 1,071
22 storefront 1,010
23 wordpress-admin-style 984

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