# general — Latest **URL:** /c/general/17 **Topics on this page:** 30 ## [How to best ask questions on this forum](/t/how-to-best-ask-questions-on-this-forum/24582) **Author:** @system **Last posted:** 2023-01-16T17:14:53Z Our intent for this forum is to provide an environment for the following: Collaborative problem-solving Information sharing This means that we want posts that ask for detailed help in solving a specific problem, or pr… --- ## [WP Packages updates, Acorn v6, and Vite v8 support](/t/wp-packages-updates-acorn-v6-and-vite-v8-support/30291) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2026-05-22T16:34:51Z Hey y’all, Lots of updates since our last email. WP Composer has been renamed to WP Packages and has gotten several improvements — dev-trunk support with SVN revision pinning and a public status page (120k installs in l… --- ## [Introducing WP Composer, Roots updates, new WordPress projects and Acorn packages](/t/introducing-wp-composer-roots-updates-new-wordpress-projects-and-acorn-packages/30237) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2026-04-27T14:08:09Z Hey y’all, We built WP Composer, a fully open source, community-funded Composer repository for WordPress plugins and themes. After WPackagist was acquired by WP Engine last week, we felt that infrastructure this centra… --- ## [WordPress 6.9, Composer 2.9, and dropping Vagrant support in Trellis](/t/wordpress-6-9-composer-2-9-and-dropping-vagrant-support-in-trellis/30071) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2026-01-20T17:10:09Z WordPress 6.9 WordPress 6.9 came out the other week, some things to note: You can now register blocks that are server side rendered with only PHP via auto_register In case your theme disables WP’s global-inline-sty… --- ## [Kinsta Black Friday deals](/t/kinsta-black-friday-deals/30049) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2025-12-29T15:28:40Z :information_source: Kinsta is offering their biggest hosting deals from today until December 2nd Monthly plans - Get 50% off for the first 6 months Annual plans - Get 6 months free Existing customers - Get 25% off your… --- ## [Roots updates: New tools, guides, and what we've been shipping](/t/roots-updates-new-tools-guides-and-what-weve-been-shipping/30013) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2025-12-02T12:57:28Z Recent blog posts Prefix namespaces in WordPress plugins to avoid conflicts WPackagist changelog action with stable version warnings Redis support comes to Trellis Zero downtime WordPress deployments with Trellis New g… --- ## [Help us refresh our testimonials](/t/help-us-refresh-our-testimonials/30007) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2025-11-27T21:55:31Z Hey y’all, It’s been a while since we’ve updated the testimonials and I’d love to showcase fresh stories from the community about how you’re using Roots tools in your work. If you’ve been using any part of the Roots ec… --- ## [🤖 Claude Code now sends Markdown when fetching docs](/t/claude-code-now-sends-markdown-when-fetching-docs/29950) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2025-10-03T04:26:01Z Saw today that Bun now serves their docs as Markdown to Claude Code which is a great idea. Just did the same for the Roots docs: We also now have front-end buttons to download/copy docs as Markdown --- ## [Help us spread the word about Roots](/t/help-us-spread-the-word-about-roots/29952) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2025-09-29T16:59:05Z Hey everyone :waving_hand: Our community is one of our biggest strengths, but we’re not always great at amplifying what we’re doing beyond our own circles. If you’re active on social media or GitHub and want to help the… --- ## [Join us on Discord](/t/join-us-on-discord/29456) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2025-04-24T18:59:16Z These forums are going read-only temporarily In the meantime, join us on our Discord server by becoming a GitHub sponsor --- ## [[Guide] Developing on Windows 10 using WSL](/t/guide-developing-on-windows-10-using-wsl/9380) **Author:** @Log1x **Last posted:** 2023-08-12T13:29:36Z With the release of the Creators update, WSL now has proper networking, 60%+ better support for Linux system calls, and the best feature of all: the ability to execute Windows native executables. You can read more about … --- ## [What does the roots ecosystem solve in WordPress?](/t/what-does-the-roots-ecosystem-solve-in-wordpress/25709) **Author:** @anjanesh **Last posted:** 2023-09-03T17:10:41Z I am very much aware of WordPress, edited theme files very long ago and know how to create a basic plugin which I did recently. I started getting into Laravel. I came across roots in my Twitter feed an I was excited to … --- ## [🌱 Introducing Radicle](/t/introducing-radicle/25036) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2023-03-28T13:33:15Z I’m excited to share a new project in the Roots ecosystem with y’all: Radicle Radicle is an opinionated starting point for WordPress projects with the Roots stack, and it includes our preferred setup of Acorn, Bedrock, … --- ## [Overview tool for agencies managing multiple sites](/t/overview-tool-for-agencies-managing-multiple-sites/24447) **Author:** @perforsberg77 **Last posted:** 2023-02-02T14:14:06Z Hi, We are running +50 sites, all based on bedrock and composer. We have our own themes/plugins and premium plugins in our own gitlab repository for centralized storage and accessible for all our sites. We use GitHub - … --- ## [ACF-composer / ACF blocks - how to debug?](/t/acf-composer-acf-blocks-how-to-debug/23954) **Author:** @folbert **Last posted:** 2022-11-07T14:49:22Z Hi all, I am using ACF Composer to create blocks for Gutenberg. What I have found is that it is incredibly hard to debug the code for this so I am looking for some pro tip. If I, for example, add a random “b” somwehere… --- ## [What are y'all using for forms these days?](/t/what-are-yall-using-for-forms-these-days/23872) **Author:** @spencer **Last posted:** 2022-10-24T17:58:02Z Gravity Forms still the choice? Html Forms looks really great but not supporting PHP 8 is a blocker for me. Need both local submissions and Pardot / web hooks. Would love to find something that doesn’t use jQuery. --- ## [How to keep Wordpress Core in version control?](/t/how-to-keep-wordpress-core-in-version-control/23617) **Author:** @veltive **Last posted:** 2022-09-06T17:10:37Z I want to keep my Wordpress version consistent when I clone my project. Everytime I clone my project in a new folder, I have to manually update to Wordpress 6. Which folder do I have to unignore with Git to achieve thi… --- ## [Bud moves to ESM and adds SWC support!](/t/bud-moves-to-esm-and-adds-swc-support/23459) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2022-06-29T13:56:26Z Big news for Bud! Kelly has transitioned the codebase to ESM in Bud v6.0.0, and also added SWC support in v6.2.0. Trellis v1.15.0 was also released with new built in fail2ban filters, dropped Python 2 support, and more. … --- ## [Ideal, scalable roots architecture scope?](/t/ideal-scalable-roots-architecture-scope/23453) **Author:** @Dogit **Last posted:** 2022-08-09T11:52:00Z Hi! I’m a WordPress developer using roots stack for the last year and I’m finding it hard to explain to my clients 100% how scalable is this tech stack. What would be (today) ideal, scalable architecture for the roots t… --- ## [WordPress 6.0 released, updates to our WordPress Composer package are now live](/t/wordpress-6-0-released-updates-to-our-wordpress-composer-package-are-now-live/23223) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2022-05-24T20:56:01Z WordPress 6.0 has been released! :tada: With this update, we’ve also shipped our changes to the roots/wordpress Composer package. Thanks to the work done by Léo Colombaro, we now have additional Composer packages availab… --- ## [It's been a while](/t/its-been-a-while/22852) **Author:** @treb0r **Last posted:** 2022-05-21T09:38:08Z So I’ve been off gallivanting in JAMstack land for a few years. I fell in love with Eleventy, Sanity and Netlify. Now I have reason to get back into some WordPress development and I’m in the process of switching over to… --- ## [Roots updates from March, Bud is 30% faster 🎉](/t/roots-updates-from-march-bud-is-30-faster/22804) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2022-04-05T11:11:50Z Howdy! We’ve moved away from Mailchimp (again) and made some additional changes to the newsletter: We’re no longer tracking opens or clicks on these emails Emails are now being addressed from myself :waving_hand: Plea… --- ## [Tailwind Accessible & Responsive Components: Menus, Accordions, and Modals... Oh my?](/t/tailwind-accessible-responsive-components-menus-accordions-and-modals-oh-my/21600) **Author:** @christianmagill **Last posted:** 2021-12-02T12:39:01Z I know there are a lot of people who use Tailwind in combination with Sage. What do you typically use for accessible and responsive components? I’m coming from Foundation where a lot of that functionality is baked in. I… --- ## [Using Roots w/ Pantheon. Insights, advice?](/t/using-roots-w-pantheon-insights-advice/21444) **Author:** @dgorton **Last posted:** 2021-10-27T17:48:47Z Hi Folks, I work for Pantheon and am interested in learning more about the current state of using Roots (probably esp Bedrock) with Pantheon. Anyone have experiences you’d be willing to share? Advice on things we could … --- ## [Detect what shortcode is being used in WordPress](/t/detect-what-shortcode-is-being-used-in-wordpress/21447) **Author:** @AurelianSpodarec **Last posted:** 2021-10-28T06:44:08Z This is a WordPress question. I’m wondering, how would you create a function that detect if WooCommerce wants to output itself? So on my page.blade.php file, I’m using ACF with flexbile content, so when WooCommerce wan… --- ## [Database connection error after running apt dist-upgrade](/t/database-connection-error-after-running-apt-dist-upgrade/21272) **Author:** @jillii **Last posted:** 2021-09-23T17:59:32Z I’m not sure that this is the right forum for this question, but it’s part of a bigger hurdle I’ve been working through - trying to update the PHP version of my wordpress site that using bedrock/trellis - and I’ve receiv… --- ## [Woocommerce Theme with Tailwind?](/t/woocommerce-theme-with-tailwind/21250) **Author:** @christianmagill **Last posted:** 2021-09-20T19:16:23Z Has anyone tried developing a Woocommerce theme with Tailwind? I like the idea of workign with Sage, WooCommerce and Tailwind, but I’m unsure if Woocommerce has too much baked in classes and structure to make this pract… --- ## [Roots Community Slack Guide](/t/roots-community-slack-guide/21021) **Author:** @ben **Last posted:** 2022-02-26T05:13:39Z Join the Roots Community Slack to chat with other Roots users! Roots Slack is available to our GitHub sponsors and patrons. Channel breakdown #announcements - Roots announcements general - General discussion that doesn… --- ## [Sage 10 "Acorn" issue?](/t/sage-10-acorn-issue/20567) **Author:** @joshb **Last posted:** 2021-05-20T23:26:11Z I don’t even know where to begin. I’ve been diving into Sage10 lately and so far everything has been wonderful. A couple hours ago out of nowhere I start seeing this: I don’t know where to turn. I was just building a… --- ## [Excerpt from Gutenberg blocks inside loop](/t/excerpt-from-gutenberg-blocks-inside-loop/20435) **Author:** @basvandertogt **Last posted:** 2021-05-06T11:33:45Z I’m using sage and sage-directives but to make my snippet as simple as possible i’m using raw php to make my issue as clear enough. I have a simple loop with the 3 latest posts. The posts are using several custom Gutenb…