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WordPress has been around for ages, at least by internet standards, and its philosophy has always been to preserve backward compatibility. This focus on compatibility understandable given the sheer amount of WordPress websites online today. However, while this can help those that still use legacy environments with old PHP and MySQL versions (which is a security risk in itself, but this is not the topic of today’s article), it also caused newer WordPress releases to not make full use of the latest PHP capabilities.

This has also caused many WordPress developers to live in a WordPress bubble, not being incentivized to learn new and modern front-end development technologies, and sometimes get stuck in the “good ol’ way” of doing things.

Can You Adopt a Modern Development Workflow for WordPress?

You most certainly can, and the WordPress Roots stack is here to help you develop like it’s 2019, with three amazing

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