roots/soil

WordPress plugin which contains a collection of modules to apply theme-agnostic front-end modifications observed · 2026-09-03

github.com/roots/soil · homepage · PHP · MIT (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-09-03

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

Activity 0
Release rhythm 8
Longevity 100

Flags: archived

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

gap_med: n/a
age_days: 5147
days_rel: n/a
days_push: 960
n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1002 stars · 168 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Soil is a WordPress plugin offering a collection of modules that apply theme-agnostic front-end modifications, such as cleaner markup, nice search URLs, relative URLs, and moving JS to the footer. It is no longer maintained and has been superseded by Acorn Prettify.

Use cases

clean up WordPress markup
convert search results to /search/query/ URLs
use root relative URLs in WordPress
move all JavaScript to the footer
disable trackbacks and asset versioning
disable the WordPress REST API
add Google Analytics via theme support

When to choose

you maintain a legacy WordPress site already using Soil
you need the classic theme-support-based module API in an old Roots stack

When to avoid

you are starting a new WordPress project - use Acorn Prettify instead
you need actively maintained or supported software

Facets

plugin · maturity abandoned

middleware web-framework web-development cms frontend php self-hosted wordpress wordpress-plugin front-end cleanup theme-agnostic deprecated acorn-prettify web-server

7 sources

readme: https://github.com/roots/soil · fetched 2026-09-03 · 9cb6a8b8735a
homepage: https://roots.io/plugins/soil/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9d6e5ed240c7
site_page: https://roots.io/getting-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2c839b4638c6
site_page: https://roots.io/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · be1d015444f1
site_page: https://roots.io/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · b600ee39807e
site_page: https://discourse.roots.io/tag/releases · fetched 2026-08-29 · a512bd0f841d
site_page: https://discourse.roots.io/tag/releases/61 · fetched 2026-08-29 · bb0e037ac03a

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
roots/soil	main	10

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