Ben Word
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Ben Word
@benword.com
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If you’re bundling Composer dependencies in your WordPress plugin, you need to namespace them. You’re setting up your users for conflicts with other plugins if you don’t implement proper namespacing.

Some @woocommerce.com extensions do it wrong — read how @yoast.com does it right
October 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Don't call it a relaunch.

ZeroPoint helps you create "marketing" style websites without a monolithic (and increasingly corporate) CMS like WordPress.

Focused on DX, version control, and native web technology, you get: an @11ty.dev base, a CMS, and a new "blocks" system.

Check it

getzeropoint.com
ZeroPoint - A corporate-free website starter project - Get ZeroPoint
getzeropoint.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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New Acorn guide: Creating WP-CLI commands with Laravel's Artisan Console
September 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
`composer remove wpackagist-plugin/safe-svg && composer require roots/allow-svg`

github.com/roots/allow-...

bsky.app/profile/benw...
It's 2025 and you still need a plugin in order to upload SVG files to a WordPress site... and the plugin (safe-svg) used to be fairly minimal, but now it includes a shitty block

The 12 year old ticket that WP core still won't touch: core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24251
July 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's 2025 and you still need a plugin in order to upload SVG files to a WordPress site... and the plugin (safe-svg) used to be fairly minimal, but now it includes a shitty block

The 12 year old ticket that WP core still won't touch: core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24251
July 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Acorn v5 and Sage v11 have been released! Sage is now using @vite.dev for the build system along with Tailwind v4

roots.io/sage-v11-and...
Sage v11 and Acorn v5 Released
Sage v11 and Acorn v5—featuring Vite, Laravel v12 support, Tailwind CSS v4
roots.io
March 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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WordPress 6.8 is bringing native bcrypt password hashing, which means our wp-password-bcrypt package is no longer needed. We're officially sunsetting it:

roots.io/sunsetting-w...
Sunsetting wp-password-bcrypt with WordPress 6.8
With WordPress 6.8 adopting bcrypt for password hashing, `wp-password-bcrypt` is now obsolete.
roots.io
February 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
roots/sage in Pressonia (the country of WordPress) from the Map of GitHub

https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/#10.93/-36.7418/9.8018
May 14, 2023 at 3:31 PM