roots.io
@roots • Advanced WordPress Development Tools. Use this route to separate flagship concentration from portfolio breadth before you treat a publisher as broadly strong.
Portfolio concentration
53%
Top three share
Shows whether the organization is driven by one breakout repo or several visible projects.
Breadth
30 repos
Visible snapshot
8 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Leading language
PHP
Portfolio mix
PHP (13), Unknown (5), Jinja (3)
Average size
35
Stars per repository
Useful for distinguishing one flagship-heavy publisher from a repeatable portfolio.
Updated: 2026-04-22(126d ago)GitHub API fallback30 repositories
53%
of the visible star count comes from this organization's top three repositories.
35
stars per repository in this same snapshot.
PHP
is the most common language here, with 8 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Why this rank
This organization stands out because its public portfolio is relatively balanced across 30 repositories.
Balanced portfolio across 30 reposTop 3 share 53%
Organization pages work best when you separate portfolio breadth from flagship concentration. In roots.io's case, the visible top three repositories account for about 53% of total stars in this snapshot, which helps explain whether the organization is known for one breakout project or for a broader repeatable portfolio.
The dominant language mix here is PHP (13), Unknown (5), Jinja (3). That makes this page useful not just for popularity checks, but also for seeing what technical shape an organization's public ecosystem actually has.
Top Repositories
| # | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roots/bud Build tool that wraps webpack complexity behind an elegant, minimal API | TypeScript | 347 |
| 2 | roots/wp-packages Manage your WordPress plugins and themes with Composer | Go | 142 |
| 3 | roots/post-content-to-markdown A WordPress plugin that serves post content as Markdown via Accept headers and .md URLs | PHP | 64 |
| 4 | roots/acorn-prettify Acorn Prettify contains a collection of modules to apply theme-agnostic front-end modifications to your Acorn-powered WordPress sites. | PHP | 61 |
| 5 | roots/vite-plugin A Vite plugin for working with WordPress | TypeScript | 58 |
| 6 | roots/allow-svg A WordPress plugin that enables SVG uploads with validation to block malicious files. | PHP | 44 |
| 7 | roots/bedrock-docker https://roots.io/bedrock/ | Dockerfile | 38 |
| 8 | roots/setup-trellis-cli Sets up Trellis CLI for GitHub Action workflows | JavaScript | 34 |
| 9 | roots/acorn-mail Simple WordPress SMTP using Acorn. | PHP | 33 |
| 10 | roots/acorn-example-package A template for creating your own Acorn packages | PHP | 25 |
| 11 | roots/acorn-ai Acorn package that wraps laravel/ai and adds first-class integration with the WordPress Abilities API | PHP | 22 |
| 12 | roots/wordpress-full Automatically updated WordPress composer package (full version, with wp-content and themes) | 20 | |
| 13 | roots/acorn-fse-helper Bootstrap FSE support in Acorn-based WordPress themes. | PHP | 19 |
| 14 | roots/wordpress-no-content Automatically updated WordPress composer package (version without wp-content) | 19 | |
| 15 | roots/wp-packages-changelog-action Automatically comment WordPress plugin changelogs on pull requests when WP Packages dependencies change in your composer.lock or composer.json files. | 16 | |
| 16 | roots/acorn-user-roles Simple user role management for Acorn. | PHP | 15 |
| 17 | roots/acorn-llms-txt Acorn package that implements llms.txt endpoints for WordPress | PHP | 15 |
| 18 | roots/acorn-post-types Simple post types and taxonomies using Extended CPTs for Acorn. | PHP | 14 |
| 19 | roots/bedrock-disallow-indexing Disallow indexing of your site on non-production environments. | PHP | 14 |
| 20 | roots/ansible-output-prettify Transform your Ansible playbook output into beautiful console output | Python | 13 |
| 21 | roots/discourse-topic-github-release-action Post published GitHub releases from a repository to a Discourse instance. | JavaScript | 7 |
| 22 | roots/vsce-blade-syntax Roots specific syntax highlighting for blade template files | 5 | |
| 23 | roots/discourse-to-markdown A Discourse plugin that serves post content as Markdown via Accept headers and .md URLs | Ruby | 4 |
| 24 | roots/trellis-deploy-action GitHub Action for deploying Trellis sites | 4 | |
| 25 | roots/sage-child-example Experimental Sage v11 child theme | PHP | 3 |
| 26 | roots/ansible-role-mailpit Ansible Role - Mailpit email testing for developers | Jinja | 3 |
| 27 | roots/ansible-role-msmtp Ansible Role: msmtp — a lightweight SMTP client and sendmail replacement for Debian-based systems | Jinja | 1 |
| 28 | roots/discourse-github-sponsors Discourse plugin that integrates GitHub Sponsors with your Discourse forum | Ruby | 1 |
| 29 | roots/wordpress-generator-legacy Legacy generator for the roots/wordpress Composer package. See https://github.com/roots/wordpress-packager for the current version. | PHP | 1 |
| 30 | roots/ansible-role-nodejs Ansible Role - Node.js | Jinja | 0 |
Next step after the organization read
Open a flagship repository, compare a couple of portfolio leaders, or return to the organization map when you want a broader concentration read.
Learn and methodology
Keep trust-building context reachable, but behind the first data read instead of ahead of it.
How to read this organization snapshot
Total stars are useful as a discovery signal, but they do not tell you whether a team maintains every repository equally. Pair this page with release cadence, maintainer activity, and the flagship concentration shown above before making adoption decisions.
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