While we all love WordPress, it’s often painful to return to it after spending time in more “modern” dev-friendly frameworks. While WordPress’ complicated relationship with modern PHP is unlikely to substantially improve any time soon (for good reasons, really!), that doesn’t mean you can’t incorporate modern best practices into your private project. In this talk, you’ll learn strategies for leveraging the latest and greatest web dev best practices with WordPress: Composer dependency management, dotenv credential management, atomic deploys, smarter project structures, Twig templates, and even how to use WordPress functions inside Slim and Laravel projects.