Installation

What is Acorn?

Acorn is a way to use Laravel components inside of WordPress.

Why use Acorn?

Acorn brings elements of the Laravel ecosystem to any WordPress plugin or theme.

To put it simply, Acorn provides a way to gracefully load a Laravel application container inside of WordPress while respecting the WordPress lifecycle and template hierarchy.

This means you get access to Laravel's artisan commands through the use of wp acorn. You can utilize Blade templates. You gain access to third-party packages built specifically for Acorn. And we provide some first-party components as well, such as view composers and assets management.

Installing Acorn with Composer

We recommend that you install Acorn on your WordPress install managed by Composer, such as with Bedrock:

$ composer require roots/acorn

If you don't use Composer to manage your WordPress install and you are using a Sage-based theme, you can install Acorn with Composer from your theme directory. Navigate to your theme folder and then run the command above.

Booting Acorn

Acorn must be booted in order to use it. Sage and Radicle already handle booting Acorn.

<?php

if (! function_exists('\Roots\bootloader')) {
    wp_die(
        __('You need to install Acorn to use this site.', 'domain'),
        '',
        [
            'link_url' => 'https://roots.io/acorn/docs/installation/',
            'link_text' => __('Acorn Docs: Installation', 'domain'),
        ]
    );
}

add_action('after_setup_theme', fn () => \Roots\bootloader()->boot());

Add the autoload dump script

Acorn has a function that should be added to the scripts section of your composer.json file for the post-autoload-dump event. To automatically configure this script, run the following command:

$ wp acorn acorn:install

Select Yes when prompted to install the Acorn autoload dump script.

"scripts": {
  //...
  "post-autoload-dump": [
    "Roots\\Acorn\\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump"
  ]
}

Server requirements

Acorn's server requirements are minimal, and mostly come from WordPress and Laravel 10's requirements.

• PHP >=8.1 with extensions: BCMath, Ctype, Fileinfo, JSON, Mbstring, Tokenizer, XML
• WordPress >= 5.4
• WP-CLI