Rob Ruiz, current maintainer of WP Rig, discusses the free and open source WordPress theme development toolkit in a podcast interview. WP Rig provides a minimal starter theme with modern tooling including Composer, Node.js, PostCSS/Lightning CSS, esbuild, and ESLint to enforce WordPress coding standards. The conversation covers who WP Rig is for (from beginners to agency developers), how it compares to page builders, its support for classic, hybrid, and block-based theme paradigms including FSE and theme-level block authoring, and the recently released version 3 which significantly overhauled the build toolchain. Rob emphasizes WP Rig's educational value and its role in encouraging more WordPress contributors.
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