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Trellis Drops Vagrant Support in Favor of Lima VMs Trellis drops Vagrant, VirtualBox, and Parallels support in favor of Lima VMs for faster, more reliable local development.

🔥 We've dropped Vagrant support entirely in Trellis (along with VirtualBox/Parallels) in favor of Lima VMs

New releases out:

- Trellis v1.27.0
- Trellis CLI v1.15.0

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Prefix Namespaces in WordPress Plugins to Avoid Conflicts Prevent WordPress plugin dependency conflicts by namespacing Composer dependencies with PHP-Scoper.

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Screenshot of Yoast's namespaced dependencies

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

Zero Downtime WordPress Deployments with Trellis Learn how to do zero downtime WordPress deployments using atomic deployment strategies with Trellis. Deploy Bedrock sites with immutable deployments.

How Trellis does zero-downtime deployments for WordPress sites

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Screenshot of a comment from the wpackagist-plugin-changelog GitHub Action

Check out our new GitHub Action that brings transparency to your WordPress plugin updates in Composer-based projects

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Screenshot of Trellis' existing default Ansible output

Current output:

Screenshot of Trellis' upcoming prettified Ansible output

Prettified Ansible output is coming soon to Trellis ✨

Creating WP-CLI Commands with Artisan Console | Acorn Docs Learn how to create custom WP-CLI commands using Laravel's Artisan Console system with Acorn.

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Screenshot of running "wp acorn:seo audit" command using the code from the linked guide below

New Acorn guide: Creating WP-CLI commands with Laravel's Artisan Console

Redis Support Comes to Trellis Trellis v1.26.0 introduces built-in Redis support for WordPress object caching. Learn how to configure Redis to boost site performance.

✨ Redis Support Comes to Trellis

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Creating and Running Laravel Migrations | Acorn Docs Learn how to create and run Laravel migrations with Acorn to manage custom database tables in WordPress.

New Acorn guide: Creating and Running Laravel Migrations

Learn how to manage custom database tables in WordPress the Laravel way ✨

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When WordPress Auto-Updates Go Wrong The GiveWP incident highlights the risks of WordPress auto-updates in production. Sites handling sensitive data need dependency management.

When WordPress Auto-Updates Go Wrong

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Announcing Allow SVG Allow SVG: a minimal, secure WordPress plugin enabling safe SVG uploads with zero configuration. Easy, developer-friendly, and open-source.

✨ We've released Allow SVG, a new minimal plugin with zero dependencies and zero config, to allow safely uploading SVGs to your WordPress sites

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I haven’t reposted this in a while.

I spent decades building in WordPress for work, and found that deployment, specifically, was a challenge.

So I built this set of GitHub actions to automate WordPress deployment, leveraging the wonderful @roots.io Bedrock.

Check it

github.com/MWDelaney/tr...

After working with @laravel.com full-time for the last 2 years, I've been keeping an eye on the Acorn project by @roots.io. Yesterday I tried the Livewire support and created a post search component in a WordPress theme.

Combining Acorn with Sage is actually making WP Theme dev fun 🎉 🤩 👀

Sage v11 and Acorn v5 Released Sage v11 and Acorn v5—featuring Vite, Laravel v12 support, Tailwind CSS v4

Acorn v5 and Sage v11 have been released! Sage is now using @vite.dev for the build system along with Tailwind v4

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Screenshot of terminal output from running the sync script

📦 Our shell script for synchronizing WordPress site databases and uploads between environments with WP-CLI aliases has been made public:

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Sunsetting wp-password-bcrypt with WordPress 6.8 With WordPress 6.8 adopting bcrypt for password hashing, `wp-password-bcrypt` is now obsolete.

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:

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