# Support for Composer
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [January 20, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175 "2021-01-20T19:55:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@greghunt](https://community.kinsta.com/u/greghunt)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/1 "2021-01-20T19:55:54Z")
Are there plans to build in composer? This is a pretty important feature for us since most of our themes manage packages with composer. We could use composer outside of the container but that would lead to potential version mismatches.
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/2 "2021-01-20T20:51:07Z")
Hi @greghunt . Welcome to DevKinsta! You should still be able to use Composer on your sites once a site has been created on DevKinsta. It would be installed locally rather than on the Docker container. Have you experienced any issues implementing Composer on a site?
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### Author:  [@greghunt](https://community.kinsta.com/u/greghunt)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/3 "2021-02-04T15:55:24Z")
Hi Michael, thanks for the reply. Yes the trouble is I may have a PHP version mismatch when using composer. For example my OS currently runs php8 but my kinsta site may be running 7.4 in its container. So if I run composer locally I may get errors with confused PHP versions
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### Author:  [@aaronmeder](https://community.kinsta.com/u/aaronmeder)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/4 "2021-02-06T08:42:01Z")
Backing this request up.
We also develop lot’s of WP sites with composer, so it would be great to have that included.
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/5 "2021-02-08T16:06:29Z")
Hi @aaronmeder @greghunt . I see what you mean. You’re correct that it’d need to do used from within the container but I understand that may not be ideal. I’ll move this over to our feature request section for our devs to take a look at.
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### Author:  [@nemanjac](https://community.kinsta.com/u/nemanjac)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/6 "2021-04-08T07:25:13Z")
@aaronmeder @greghunt
Until this is part of DevKinsta, there is a simple and easy way to install composer on your DevKinsta.
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Cheers
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/7 "2021-04-08T16:16:00Z")
Thank you for sharing @nemanjac !
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### Author:  [@jasperheidebrink](https://community.kinsta.com/u/jasperheidebrink)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2022, 10:11am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/8 "2022-10-03T10:11:17Z")
Hi,
Is there already a update? Because this hash is not valid anymore and we can not install composer.
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### Author:  [@Kevin](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Kevin)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/9 "2022-10-03T17:32:58Z")
Hi @jasperheidebrink, this should work if you use the current installer checksum found at the top of this page: [https://composer.github.io/pubkeys.html](https://composer.github.io/pubkeys.html)
I’ll ask our developers to look into this feature request again as well.
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### Author:  [@DavidME](https://community.kinsta.com/u/DavidME)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/10 "2023-02-13T16:13:06Z")
Hello @nemanjac thanks for your answer, do you know if there is an option to use this on MacOS system?
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### Author:  [@Agus](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Agus)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/11 "2023-02-14T01:50:30Z")
Hello @DavidME 👋 Welcome to DevKinsta Community!
I don’t have/use Mac here (but Linux Ubuntu), and as I could check/see, those command-lines shared by manjac (🙇♂️ Thank you Nemanja Cimbaljevic!) should be able to be run on Mac machines as well.
In order to do so, first you can run/open the `Terminal` program on your Mac.
Then on your `Terminal` program, you can type this command (that will log you in to your local `devkinsta_fpm` docker’s container) :
`docker exec -it devkinsta_fpm bash`
After that, you can follow the next steps/commands provided [there](https://gist.github.com/nem-c/da6d169f2fa8071f3755fac4cbec6e3f) - start from line #5.
Note that on **line #9** , you will just need to change that line to the following:
> php -r “if (hash\_file(‘sha384’, ‘composer-setup.php’) === ‘55ce33d7678c5a611085589f1f3ddf8b3c52d662cd01d4ba75c0ee0459970c2200a51f492d557530c71c15d8dba01eae’) { echo ‘Installer verified’; } else { echo ‘Installer corrupt’; unlink(‘composer-setup.php’); } echo PHP\_EOL;”
that random number ( `55ce33d7678c5a611085589f1f3ddf8b3c52d662cd01d4ba75c0ee0459970c2200a51f492d557530c71c15d8dba01eae` ) is taken from the current “_Installer Checksum (SHA-384)_” section here: [https://composer.github.io/pubkeys.html](https://composer.github.io/pubkeys.html)
Once done, you can test to call the `composer` in that `devkinsta_fpm` container with something like this ( as shown on l[ine #20 in that github page](https://gist.github.com/nem-c/da6d169f2fa8071f3755fac4cbec6e3f#:~:text=%23%23%20Confirm%20installation-,composer%20%2D%2Dversion,-Write) - to check its version ) :
`composer --version`
You can then type: `exit` to quit from that `devkinsta_fpm` container (and may want to close your `Terminal` program).
I also ran the above command lines on my Linux machine and the `composer` seems to be running fine there .
Cheers,
Agus
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### Author:  [@Olivier\_Bigras](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Olivier_Bigras)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/12 "2025-11-24T17:30:18Z")
Hi, do you have any feedback on this ? its 2025 and almost 2026 and composer is needed
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### Author:  [@Adrian\_L](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Adrian_L)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/13 "2025-11-25T03:53:28Z")
Hi @Olivier_Bigras
Were you able to try what Agus suggested above? While it seems a great feature, I am afraid we don’t have development progress or an ETA that we can provide yet regarding natively supporting Composer through DevKinsta.
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### Author:  [@Olivier\_Bigras](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Olivier_Bigras)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/14 "2025-11-25T15:09:24Z")
Hi Adrian,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I’m aware of the workaround suggested above, but that’s exactly the issue: in 2025, Composer (and even Node for Tailwind/Vite workflows) shouldn’t require manual Docker exec steps or container-level installs that disappear every time DevKinsta rebuilds.
Composer has become a core requirement for modern WordPress development — not an optional extra. Tools like Bedrock, Timber, TailPress, Sage, and even many WooCommerce setups depend on it. Without native Composer support, DevKinsta feels incomplete for any modern PHP workflow.
Right now the workflow is:
- open an external terminal
- run docker exec manually
- install Composer manually
- reinstall after container rebuilds
- manually manage Node/Tailwind builds
It works, but it’s not sustainable or efficient for day-to-day development.
It would really help if DevKinsta included:
- Composer preinstalled in the PHP container
- Optional Node support for Tailwind/Vite
- An integrated terminal that automatically opens the correct container
At this point they’re essential tools, not “nice to have”.
If DevKinsta wants to stay competitive with LocalWP, DDEV, Lando, and Herd, native Composer support is key.
Thanks again — hoping this can move forward soon.
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### Author:  [@Adrian\_L](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Adrian_L)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/support-for-composer/175/16 "2025-11-26T02:12:43Z")
Thank you for your feedback. I have forwarded it to our DevKinsta development team. While we cannot provide an estimated time for when these features may become available, we will post updates here as they are made.