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Parses block markup into a tree, in Node or the browser.

Gutenberg team

500k+ downloads a month

Creates, serialises and validates blocks before they reach the editor.

Gutenberg team

600k+ downloads a month

Parses block markup in PHP, shipped inside every WordPress install.

Core

Turns the HTML an agent designs into clean, correctly nested block trees the editor accepts.

Human Made

3k+ downloads a month

Compiles style data and theme.json into CSS.

Gutenberg team

Parses block markup with the reference grammar of the block spec.

Gutenberg team

10k+ downloads a month

Exports site-editor changes and patterns back into theme files.

Core

Turns HTML into blocks in pure PHP, inside the site itself.

Alley Interactive

30k+ downloads a month

Turns HTML into blocks as a plugin or Composer package.

Chris Huber

Indexes every registered block into a schema so an agent cannot invent attributes.

Marcel Schmitz

Turns a JSON block tree back into block markup.

10up

200+ downloads a month

Runs the block editor outside wp-admin.

Moksa1123

Packages the core PHP parser for use outside WordPress.

wp-php-toolkit

Publishes every REST route and its schema, so an agent can discover a site.

Core

Reads a site into one JSON file of its blocks, post types, fields, plugins and gaps.

Human Made

Turns a site into an OAuth 2.0 server with PKCE and discovery.

miniOrange

Runs any WordPress operation from the shell, with structured output and exit codes.

WP-CLI team

Manages posts, users, terms, menus, comments, options and sites.

WP-CLI team

Installs, activates, updates and removes plugins and themes.

WP-CLI team

Generates plugin, theme, block and test scaffolds.

WP-CLI team

Rewrites strings across the database without breaking serialised data.

WP-CLI team

Deploys a tagged plugin release to WordPress.org from GitHub Actions.

10up

600+ stars

Runs machine-readable diagnostic checks against a site.

WP-CLI team

100+ stars

Exposes REST resources as shell commands.

WP-CLI team

100+ stars

Exposes WordPress abilities to agents through the Model Context Protocol.

WordPress

1k+ stars

Builds a distributable archive of a plugin or theme.

WP-CLI team

Installs and manages WP-CLI packages.

WP-CLI team

Profiles a request stage by stage to find slow hooks.

WP-CLI team

Pushes readme and screenshot updates to WordPress.org without a release.

10up

100+ stars

Calls the core AI client from the shell.

WP-CLI team

Wraps every write in snapshot, verify and restore.

Cosmin Craciun

Bundles an agent kit for WordPress.

Kyle Brodeur

Drives WordPress from an agent framework over the shell.

Mervin Praison

Bundles agent-facing tools for WordPress operations.

pluginslab

Stages content, style and settings changes so a person applies them.

Rich Tabor

Bundles agent tooling from the Oxygen and Breakdance team.

Soflyy

Runs WordPress on WebAssembly, in a browser tab or headless.

Core

2k+ stars

Packages WordPress as the official Docker image.

Docker

1k+ stars

Builds a reproducible Docker WordPress from a config file.

Core

Parses, validates and executes blueprints from code.

Core

Boots a headless WordPress with no Docker or MySQL, from a blueprint.

Core

Boots an instance from code, runs PHP, edits its files and exports it.

Core

Describes a fresh site as JSON steps: install, import, run PHP, run SQL.

Core

Collects 65 example blueprints, and takes pull requests.

Core

100+ stars

Mirrors WordPress.org plugins and themes as a Composer repository.

WP Engine

700+ stars

Provisions and deploys a WordPress server with Ansible.

Roots

2k+ stars

Applies blueprints to existing sites and pins runtime versions.

Core

Starts and stops ephemeral Playground instances over MCP.

pluginslab

Extracts a blueprint from a live site.

ProgressPlanner

Spins up disposable Playground sandboxes with an agent runtime policy.

Automattic

Provides a lab environment for agent runs against WordPress.

nuttaruj

Shows every hook, query, HTTP call and template a request touched.

John Blackbourn

1k+ stars

Checks PHP against WordPress conventions and security rules.

WPCS

2k+ stars

Drives wp-admin and the editor from Playwright tests.

Gutenberg team

Mocks the WordPress API so units test in isolation.

10up

700+ stars

Runs integration and acceptance tests through Codeception.

Luca Tumedei

600+ stars

Mocks WordPress functions and hooks for isolated unit tests.

Brain WP

300+ stars

Generates random content, repeatable only if you pin the seed.

Gustavo Bordoni

300+ stars

Loads posts, users, media and menus from a YAML file, the same way every time.

Nicolas Lemoine

100+ stars

Declares every WordPress function and class for static analysis.

php-stubs

200+ stars

Checks PHP version compatibility with WordPress in mind.

PHPCompatibility

Teaches PHPStan how WordPress behaves.

Viktor Szépe

300+ stars

Checks a plugin against WordPress.org directory rules.

Core

300+ stars

Provides the WordPress PHPUnit test runtime, pinned by version.

wp-phpunit

Scans WordPress; vulnerability data uses an API token with 25 free requests a day.

WPScan

9k+ stars

Provides round-trip fixtures for every core block, copied from the repo.

Gutenberg team

Provides the official theme unit test content as XML.

Core

Stores posts as git commits, so git diff becomes the content diff.

bradvin

Compares before and after screenshots of pages.

tellyworth

Packages WordPress operating knowledge for coding agents, versioned.

WordPress.org

Grades AI-written WordPress code with static checks and runtime assertions.

Core

Packages audit, repair and migration procedures for agents.

respira-press

Packages procedures and tooling for agents doing WordPress work.

Extra Chill

Bundles agent tooling under AGPL.

worldoptimizer

Calls any AI provider from PHP through one interface, shipped in core 7.0.

Core

Drives Chromium, Firefox and WebKit from scripted tests. WordPress core runs its own suite on it.

Microsoft

90k+ stars

Checks a rendered page against WCAG rules. Runs on every Gutenberg end-to-end test.

Deque

7k+ stars

Runs browser tests in-process with time-travel debugging.

Cypress.io

50k+ stars

Controls headless Chrome over the DevTools protocol.

Google

90k+ stars

Compares before and after screenshots to catch visual regressions.

Garris Shipon

7k+ stars

Validates HTML, CSS and SVG against the living standard.

W3C

1k+ stars

Runs accessibility checks on a page from the command line.

pa11y

4k+ stars

Validates RSS and Atom feeds against the spec.

W3C

100+ stars

Audits a page for performance, accessibility, SEO and best practices.

Google

30k+ stars

Load-tests endpoints with scripted virtual-user traffic.

Grafana

30k+ stars

Measures LCP, INP and CLS in the field the way Chrome does.

Google

8k+ stars

Extracts and inlines above-the-fold CSS.

Addy Osmani

10k+ stars

Tracks Lighthouse scores across commits and fails a build on regression.

Google

7k+ stars

Recompresses images to WebP, AVIF or MozJPEG from a CLI.

Google

20k+ stars

Runs Lighthouse across every page in a sitemap in parallel.

Harlan Wilton

4k+ stars

Flags coding-standard violations in PHP, JavaScript and CSS.

PHPCSStandards

1k+ stars

Finds bugs in PHP with static type analysis.

Ondřej Mirtes

10k+ stars

Finds and fixes problems in JavaScript and TypeScript.

ESLint

20k+ stars

Checks PHP code for cross-version compatibility.

PHPCompatibility

2k+ stars

Formats code deterministically.

Prettier

50k+ stars

Rewrites PHP to a configured style.

PHP-CS-Fixer

10k+ stars

Finds type errors and taint flows in PHP.

Vimeo

5k+ stars

Refactors and upgrades PHP automatically with rule sets.

Rector

10k+ stars

Runs pattern rules across PHP and JavaScript, with a WordPress rule pack.

Semgrep

10k+ stars

Lints CSS and SCSS for errors and conventions.

Stylelint

10k+ stars

Flags unused, overlong or overcomplicated PHP.

PHPMD

2k+ stars

Manages PHP dependencies and audits them for known vulnerabilities.

Composer

20k+ stars

Runs Docker-based local environments with a WordPress project type.

DDEV

3k+ stars

Deploys PHP apps over SSH with zero downtime, with a WordPress recipe.

Deployer

10k+ stars

Runs Docker-based local environments with a WordPress recipe.

Lando

4k+ stars

Opens automated pull requests for dependency updates.

Mend

20k+ stars

Uploads only changed files to a server over FTP or SFTP.

git-ftp

5k+ stars

Builds a static Composer repository from a config.

Composer

3k+ stars

Mirrors a site to local files.

GGNU

Crawls and scrapes sites into clean Markdown or JSON. Self-hostable.

Mendable

100k+ stars

Crawls and scrapes sites with a Python spider framework.

Scrapy

60k+ stars

Strips a page to its main content as Markdown.

Steph Ango

9k+ stars

Extracts article text and metadata from crawled pages.

Adrien Barbaresi

6k+ stars

Crawls a site and reports broken links.

Justin Beckwith

1k+ stars

Crawls a site and reports SEO, security, accessibility and speed findings.

Jan Reges

900+ stars

Lets AI agents navigate websites and complete tasks in a real browser.

Browser Use

100k+ stars

Ships reference MCP servers for filesystem, git, fetch and memory.

Model Context Protocol

90k+ stars

Chains triggers and app actions into workflows, with a WordPress node.

n8n

200k+ stars

Drives a real browser over MCP using accessibility-tree snapshots.

Microsoft

30k+ stars

Drives headless Chrome from a CLI with compact snapshots.

Vercel Labs

40k+ stars

Debugs any MCP server from a web UI or the command line.

Model Context Protocol

10k+ stars

Evaluates and red-teams prompts with declarative test cases.

promptfoo

20k+ stars

Combines browser controls with AI actions, page observation and structured extraction.

Browserbase

20k+ stars