Perdita Core
Free companion plugin for the Perdita WordPress theme: forms, SEO, caching, security, newsletters and more (GPL)
by Eric Rosenberg · github.com/ericrosenberg1/perdita-core · website
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Install
No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:
wp plugin install https://github.com/ericrosenberg1/perdita-core/archive/refs/heads/main.zipFrom the readme
Perdita Core
The free companion plugin for the Perdita
theme. It carries everything the theme can't: SEO, forms, page caching,
security hardening, analytics, email, backups, a small store, an MCP server,
and the module registry that turns each of those on and off.
Why it exists
Perdita is going to the wordpress.org theme directory, and the theme review
rules keep plugin territory out of a theme: SEO output, forms, caching,
analytics, shortcodes, custom post types, and custom roles. All of that used to
live in the theme's inc/. It lives here now.
That makes the standard three-piece freemium shape:
| Piece | What it owns |
|---|---|
| Perdita (theme) | Design. The token document, the CSS generator, the Customizer, fonts, patterns, the AI provider router, PerditaCrypto, the child theme generator, migration from other themes. |
| Perdita Core (this plugin, free) | Behavior. The module registry and all thirteen free modules. |
| Perdita Pro (paid plugin) | More modules, registered into this plugin's registry through the perditaregistermodules action. |
How it hangs together
The plugin requires the Perdita theme (as the active theme or the parent of
one). Plugins load before a the