- Iain Poulson.
- How We Improved Composer Support for Our Premium Plugins Again. deliciousbrains, 2019.
- How to Make Your MU-Plugins Compatible with Composer (And Why). deliciousbrains, 2019.
- How We Built Composer Support For Our Premium WordPress Plugins. deliciousbrains, 2018.
- Tom McFarlin. Tools for Writing Better WordPress Code. 2019.
- Part 1: Introduction.
- If you install manually as outlined in this article you’ll need to change the permissions on composer.phar. See Raaghu’s answer on StackOverflow.
- Part 2: Composer.
- Creates a basic plugin that displays a message on the Admin Dashboard and demonstrates using Composer.
- Why not to package the vendor directory with your code and how to use the lock file instead.
- Part 3: The Composer Lock File.
- Why not to package the vendor directory with your code and how to use the lock file instead.
- Part 1: Introduction.
- Tom McFarlin.
- Composer Without Continuous Integration. 2018.
- How to create a distributable package of one’s WP plugin without using CI or adding the vendor directory to the git repo.
- Composer Without Continuous Integration. 2018.
- Chris Van Patten. Thoughts on Composer, Dependency Management, and “Practical” Autoloading in WordPress. 2018.
- Discusses the challenges of using Composer with WP, some suggestions on how things might be solved.
- Dave Smith. Better Dependency Management in Team-Based WordPress Projects With Composer. smashing magazine, 2014.
- Solid article that covers a lot of ground.
- Josh Pollock.
- Improving WordPress Plugin Development with Composer. Torque, 2014.
- Improving WordPress Development Workflow with Composer. Torque, 2014.
- Leonardo Losoviz. Using Composer with WordPress. Smashing Magazine, 2019.
- Focuses primarily on using WP to manage entire site.
Resources
- WordPress Packagist – Mirrors WP plugin and theme directories as a Composer repo.
- Composer in WordPress – Rarst has compiled some of the most extensive documentation on using Composer in WP.