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📦 A micro framework which modernizes WordPress as a CMS development by providing tools to implement MVC and more.

🔥 Integration is incremental - you can use it only on the pages you want or on all pages.

❤ If you've used frameworks such as Laravel, Slim or Symfony you will love WP Emerge.

🚀 Also, make sure you check out the WP Emerge [Starter Plugin](https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge-plugin) and [Starter Theme](https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge-theme) projects.

## Requirements

- [PHP](http://php.net/) >= 5.5
- [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/) >= 4.7
- [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/)

## Features & Documentation

[https://docs.wpemerge.com/#/framework/overview](https://docs.wpemerge.com/#/framework/overview)

[https://docs.wpemerge.com/#/framework/quickstart](https://docs.wpemerge.com/#/framework/quickstart)

## API Reference

[https://api.wpemerge.com/](https://api.wpemerge.com/)

## Development Team

Brought to you by [Atanas Angelov](https://atanas.dev/) and the lovely folks at [htmlBurger](http://htmlburger.com).

## Contributing

WP Emerge is completely open source and we encourage everybody to participate by:

- Reviewing `.github/CONTRIBUTING.md`.
- ⭐ the project on GitHub \([https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge](https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge)\)
- Posting bug reports \([https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge/issues](https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge/issues)\)
- (Emailing security issues to [hi@atanas.dev](mailto:hi@atanas.dev) instead)
- Posting feature suggestions \([https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge/issues](https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge/issues)\)
- Posting and/or answering questions \([https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge/issues](https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge/issues)\)
- Submitting pull requests \([https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge/pulls](https://github.com/htmlburger/wpemerge/pulls)\)
- Sharing your excitement about WP Emerge with your community
