composer

Solving the “Two packages cannot share the same directory!” Composer error

If you use Composer to manage dependencies on your WordPress site, you probably know the name John P. Bloch. He maintains a regularly-updated fork of WordPress that’s tailored for use with Composer. It turns up a lot in WordPress boilerplate. Recently he made some changes to his fork, moving some of the core WordPress components […]

Installing and using Composer

Composer is a dependency-management tool for PHP. It installs and keeps current all library dependencies for a given project. It does so recursively, so not only does it manage all direct dependencies but any dependencies those dependencies have, and so on, and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. It’s becoming more popular as an installation […]