# Roots updates: New tools, guides, and what we've been shipping

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/roots-updates-new-tools-guides-and-what-weve-been-shipping/30013
**Category:** general
**Tags:** newsletter
**Created:** 2025-10-21T12:56:35Z
**Posts:** 2

## Post 1 by @ben — 2025-10-21T12:56:36Z

### Recent blog posts

- [Prefix namespaces in WordPress plugins to avoid conflicts](https://roots.io/prefix-namespaces-in-wordpress-plugins-to-avoid-conflicts/)
- [WPackagist changelog action with stable version warnings](https://roots.io/wpackagist-changelog-action-with-stable-version-warnings/)
- [Redis support comes to Trellis](https://roots.io/redis-support-comes-to-trellis/)
- [Zero downtime WordPress deployments with Trellis](https://roots.io/zero-downtime-wordpress-deployments-with-trellis/)

### New guides

- [Acorn: Creating and processing Laravel queues](https://roots.io/acorn/docs/creating-and-processing-laravel-queues/)
- [Acorn: Creating WP-CLI commands with Artisan Console](https://roots.io/acorn/docs/creating-wp-cli-commands-with-artisan-console/)
- [Bedrock: Converting WordPress sites to Bedrock](https://roots.io/bedrock/docs/converting-wordpress-sites-to-bedrock/)
- [Bedrock: Patching WordPress plugins with Composer](https://roots.io/bedrock/docs/patching-wordpress-plugins-with-composer/)

### New documentation

- [Acorn: Controllers and middleware](https://roots.io/acorn/docs/controllers-and-middleware/)
- [Acorn: Eloquent models](https://roots.io/acorn/docs/eloquent-models/)

### New projects

- [WPackagist changelog action](https://github.com/roots/wpackagist-changelog-action) — Automatically comment WordPress plugin changelogs on pull requests when WPackagist dependencies change in your `composer.lock` or `composer.json` files
- [Post content to markdown](https://github.com/roots/post-content-to-markdown) — A WordPress plugin that serves post content as Markdown via Accept headers or query parameters
- [Allow SVG](https://github.com/roots/allow-svg) — A WordPress plugin that enables SVG uploads with validation to block malicious files (zero dependencies or config)
- [Acorn Prettify](https://github.com/roots/acorn-prettify) — The successor to Soil — cleaner WordPress markup and more

We’ve also got some exciting [work in progress for Trellis to prettify the output](https://github.com/roots/trellis/pull/1608), and we continue to ship regular releases across all our projects ([recent releases here](https://discourse.roots.io/tag/releases?order=created)). Our [Vite plugin](https://github.com/roots/vite-plugin) has also had a couple of recent enhancements for externalMappings, updated exemptPackages list, and fixed compatibility with `@wordpress/dependency-extraction-webpack-plugin`.

### Radicle updates

[Radicle](https://roots.io/radicle/) has gotten a major facelift recently, see the latest releases:

- [Radicle v2.1.0](https://discourse.roots.io/t/radicle-v2-1-0-released/29953)
- [Radicle v2.2.0](https://discourse.roots.io/t/radicle-v2-2-0-released/29974)

### Interesting WordPress projects

- [WindPress](https://github.com/wind-press/windpress) — Use Tailwind CSS within the block editor, page builders, plugins, and themes without a build step
- [WordPress API Content Migration](https://github.com/istogram/wp-api-content-migration) — An Acorn package to migrate WP content using the WP REST API
- [EnvPress](https://github.com/wierkstudio/envpress) — PHP package streamlining the configuration of WordPress instances using env vars
- [WP Loupe](https://github.com/soderlind/wp-loupe) — Search enhancement plugin for WordPress that delivers fast, accurate, and typo-tolerant search results
- [WP Thumbhash](https://github.com/hirasso/wp-thumbhash) — Generate and render thumbhash placeholders for your lazy-loaded images
- [Contextual Link Weaver](https://github.com/geosem42/contextual-link-weaver) — Uses Geminito provide context-aware link suggestions directly in the WordPress editor
- [WordPress ORM with Eloquent](https://github.com/dimitriBouteille/wp-orm) — An object-relational mapper that makes it enjoyable to interact with your database

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## Post 2 by @system — 2025-12-02T12:57:28Z

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