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  1. WordPress Packagist

    WPackagist — manage your plugins with Composer

    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.

  2. Kargo

    Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.

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  3. bedrock

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

    There are ready-made boilerplates like Bedrock and Sword but, at an architectural level, I'm not a fan of any I've seen.

  4. sword-bundle

    Modern WordPress development with Symfony

    There are ready-made boilerplates like Bedrock and Sword but, at an architectural level, I'm not a fan of any I've seen.

  5. Composer

    Dependency Manager for PHP

    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.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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