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I'm not sure if this helps, but there's also Corcel — sort of the opposite of Acorn:

> Corcel is a collection of PHP classes built on top of Eloquent ORM (from Laravel framework), that provides a fluent interface to connect and get data directly from a WordPress database.

You'd just be switching one framework for another really. Either make it framework agnostic or make it use the framework you're already using (wordpress)... anything else is unnecessary overhead

> We have a hybrid wordpress symfony site

I was trying to get it set up so I could use twig templates inside pages. I couldn't get it to work since both frameworks ( Wordpress & Symfony) want to be in charge. Any secrets you can impart?