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MD Michael Dyrynda Michael Dyrynda Principal engineer at LMG Asset Finance in Adelaide, Australia, who works with PHP and Laravel and organizes the Laracon AU conference.

“We've in the PHP Australia Slack often joked about this unholy union of Laravel and WordPress. And now, someone has created Palora, a framework that allows WordPress to run inside of a Laravel application... It was always a fever dream... Well, agents have enabled this... Think long and hard about whether this is something that you actually want to do... Good luck and Godspeed.”

Laravel News Podcast · Laravel Ecosystem · November 2026

“We've in the PHP Australia Slack often joked about this unholy union of Laravel and WordPress. And now, someone has created Palora, a framework that allows WordPress to run inside of a Laravel application... It was always a fever dream... Well, agents have enabled this... Think long and hard about whether this is something that you actually want to do... Good luck and Godspeed.” — Michael Dyrynda, Laravel News Podcast

Context

On Laravel News Podcast 270, Michael Dyrynda introduces Palora, a package that boots WordPress inside a Laravel app, as the kind of thought experiment that only got built because coding agents made it cheap to try.

Transcript

Laravel News Podcast Around 26:59 into the episode
Michael Dyrynda

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Jacob Bennett

…introduce it into your project on today without having to fix the backlog of all the things that it would have had to find in the first place. It also provides commands for reviewing and fixing code issues with optional integrations like Rector and Pint. All right, that's it on that one. Sloppy.

Michael Dyrynda

We've in the PHP Australia Slack often joked about this unholy union of Laravel and WordPress. And now, someone has created Palora, a framework that allows WordPress to run inside of a Laravel application, integrating Laravel's tools with WordPress's functionality. The framework offers Laravel developers the ability to leverage WordPress's extensive ecosystem within Laravel's modern PHP framework, possibly unifying workflows and expanding project capabilities. This runs inside WordPress. Sorry, this runs WordPress inside a Laravel application, leveraging routing, controllers, and Blade for…

Jacob Bennett

There we are. All right, folks, we've got another package here called Dedupler, Laravel Storage Dedupler. So the idea here is that this package prevents duplicate file uploads. And the way that it does this is it creates a SHA-1 hash to identify each of the files that are uploaded. So if you don't…

Michael Dyrynda

Yeah, it's a useful thing, especially when you've got different people potentially uploading the same files in applications and things like that. So to be able to say, we don't need to take up the same disk space twice, but we found a matching, you know, whatever. Let's just take that reference and…

Jacob Bennett

Speaking of show notes, you can find those at podcast.laravel-news.com/slash episode 270. We would really appreciate if you rate us up in your podcaster of choice. Five stars would be amazing. And of course, if you have any questions, you can find us on X at Michael Dyrynda at Jacob Bennett or at…

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