With an emphasis on free, non-premium, bloat-free and open-source tools
- ryanwelcher/advanced-query-loop: WordPress plugin that introduces a Query Loop block variation that can create advanced queries.
- alleyinteractive/wordpress-fieldmanager: Fieldmanager is a comprehensive toolkit for building forms, metaboxes, and custom admin screens for WordPress.
- htmlburger/carbon-fields: Carbon Fields - developer-oriented library for WordPress custom fields for all types of WordPress content.
- ClassicPress/ClassicPress: The CMS for Creators. Stable. Lightweight. Instantly Familiar. Forked from WordPress.
- Automattic/wp-calypso: Calypso is the new WordPress.com front-end – a beautiful redesign of the WordPress dashboard using a single-page web application, powered by the WordPress.com REST API. Calypso is built for reading, writing, and managing all of your WordPress sites in one place.
- WordPress/gutenberg: The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
- WordPress/openverse: Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media. This monorepo includes all application code.
- WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards: PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) to enforce WordPress coding conventions.
- WordPress/wordpress-playground: Run WordPress in the browser via WebAssembly PHP.
- WordPress/WordPress: WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository.
- List of all WP Versions
- Wordpress Learn: Whether you’re a first-time blogger or seasoned developer, there’s always more to learn. From community members all over the world, these vast resources will help you learn more about WordPress and share it with others.
Mostly open-source and bloat-free
- amnestywebsite/humanity-theme: This is the home of Amnesty International's WordPress theme, which is currently in production use on over 30 sites.
- Automattic/_s: Hi. I'm a starter theme called _s, or underscores, if you like. I'm a theme meant for hacking so don't use me as a Parent Theme. Instead try turning me into the next, most awesome, WordPress theme out there. That's what I'm here for.
- Automattic/themes: The development repository for themes maintained by the Automattic Theme Team.
- flyntwp/flynt: Component based WordPress starter theme, powered by ACF Pro and Timber, optimized for a11y and fast page load results.
- greenpeace/planet4-develop: Planet 4, Greenpeace's website builder and digital engagement platform.
- littlebizzy/hovercraft: HoverCraft is a free WordPress theme that saves you time by supporting popular layouts out-of-the-box, without any page builders or bloated add-ons required.
- OllieWP/ollie: A finely-crafted WordPress block theme by Mike McAlister.
- roots/sage: WordPress starter theme with Laravel Blade components and templates, Tailwind CSS, and a modern development workflow.
- WordPress/community-themes: A collection of Block Themes built by the WordPress community.
- WordPress/theme-experiments: Experimenting with themes made out of blocks.
- Automattic/studio: Studio by WordPress.com, a free desktop app that helps developers streamline their local WordPress development workflow.
- DevinVinson/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate: A foundation for WordPress Plugin Development that aims to provide a clear and consistent guide for building your plugins.
- lukecav/awesome-wp-speed-up: Plugins and resources to speed up and optimize your WordPress site.
- reduxframework/redux-framework: Redux is a simple, truly extensible options framework for WordPress themes and plugins!
- roots/acorn: Laravel components for WordPress plugins and themes.
- roots/bedrock: WordPress boilerplate with Composer, easier configuration, and an improved folder structure.
- roots/bud: High-performance build system that supports SWC, esbuild, and Babel.
- roots/trellis: WordPress LEMP stack with PHP 8.2, Composer, WP-CLI and more.
- roots/trellis-cli: A CLI to manage Trellis projects.
- swissspidy/media-experiments: This experimental WordPress plugin aims to bring improved media capabilities to WordPress and specifically the block editor, all powered by new web platform features like WebAssembly.
- timber/timber: Create WordPress themes with beautiful OOP code and the Twig Template Engine.
- vinkla/wordplate: WordPlate is a boilerplate for WordPress, built with Composer and designed with sensible defaults.
- WordPress/create-block-theme: A WordPress plugin to create block themes.
- wp-bootstrap/wp-bootstrap-navwalker: A custom WordPress nav walker class to fully implement the Twitter Bootstrap 4.0+ navigation style (v3-branch available for Bootstrap 3) in a custom theme using the WordPress built in menu manager.
- wp-cli/doctor-command: Diagnose problems within WordPress by running a series of checks for symptoms.
- wpscanteam/wpscan: WPScan WordPress security scanner. Written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their WordPress websites.
Wordpress as a Service
- ActivityPub: Enter the fediverse with ActivityPub, broadcasting your blog to a wider audience! Attract followers, deliver updates, and receive comments from a diverse user base of ActivityPub-compliant platforms.
- Betterdocs: BetterDocs will help you to create & organize your documentation page in a beautiful way that will make your visitors find any help article easily. It will facilitate your client to make faster decisions and get help on the spot by self-servicing instead of avoiding lengthy conversations.
- buddypress/buddypress: BuddyPress helps you build any kind of community website using WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more.
- Friends: The Friends plugin allows you to follow content from other WordPress sites, and interact with them on your own site. You can follow friends and others via RSS. If you also have the ActivityPub plugin installed, you can follow people on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compatible social networks.
- GatherPress/gatherpress: Powering our community's event management needs.
- Hum: Hum is a personal URL shortener for WordPress, designed to provide short URLs to your personal content, both hosted on WordPress and elsewhere.
- kanbanwp/kanban: A complete kanban board for WordPress.
- Matomo WP Plugins Github: Matomo Analytics is the #1 used Google Analytics alternative that offers a powerful range of features, security and protects the privacy of your users.
- Rootspersona: Rootspersona creates one or more pages of family history using data imported from one or more GEDCOM files.
- woocommerce/woocommerce: A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Mostly nice JS libraries
- alvarotrigo/fullPage.js: fullPage plugin by Alvaro Trigo. Create full screen pages fast and simple.
- awesome-bootstrap-org/awesome-bootstrap: Awesome - A curated list of amazing Bootstrap tools and themes.
- desandro/masonry: Cascading grid layout plugin
- devicons/devicon: Set of icons representing programming languages, designing & development tools.
- imsky/holder: Client-side image placeholders.
- michalsnik/aos: Animate On Scroll Library.
- penpot/penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration.
- public-apis/public-apis: A collective list of free APIs.
- twbs/bootstrap: The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
- VincentGarreau/particles.js: A lightweight JavaScript library for creating particles.
- wagerfield/parallax: Parallax Engine that reacts to the orientation of a smart device
- dropndot/awesome-wordpress: A curated list of Awesome WordPress Theme, Plugins and Framework development Resources and WordPress Communities.
- frontity/frontity: Frontity - The React Framework for WordPress. Not under active development.
- lukecav/awesome-wp-developer-tools: A collection of plugins, starter themes and tools to make WordPress development easier. Not under active development.
- miziomon/awesome-wordpress: A curated list of amazingly awesome WordPress resources, themes, plugins and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-php. Not under active development.
- navidkashani/awesome-acf: A collection of third party add-ons for advanced custom field plugin for WordPress. Not under active development.
- postlight/headless-wp-starter: WordPress + React Starter Kit: Spin up a WordPress-powered React app in one step. Not under active development.