The missing architecture layer for modern WordPress theme development.

PressGang is an open-source framework that brings modern architecture, structure and engineering practices to WordPress theme development.

Rather than replacing WordPress or hiding it behind another framework, PressGang builds on native WordPress, Composer, Timber and Twig to provide a cleaner, more maintainable development experience.

It introduces sensible defaults, reusable patterns and a growing ecosystem of packages—while remaining lightweight, familiar and unapologetically WordPress.

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PressGang respects the WordPress way.

It embraces native APIs, hooks, templates and the WordPress lifecycle, while adding the structure expected from modern PHP applications.

The result is cleaner code, better organisation and a development experience that scales without unnecessary abstractions.

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Core Principles

• 🇼 Native WordPress first
• 🌲 Built on the Timber ecosystem
• 📦 Composer-first architecture
• 🧩 Convention over configuration
• 🧼 Clean, maintainable code
• ♻️ Reusable components
• 🚀 Modern PHP development

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PressGang

The core framework for modern WordPress theme development.

📖 Documentation https://docs.pressgang.dev

💻 Repository https://github.com/pressgang-wp/pressgang

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Quartermaster

A standalone, fluent WP_Query builder with a clean, expressive API for composing complex WordPress queries.

💻 Repository https://github.com/pressgang-wp/pressgang-quartermaster