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adrianoferreira/wp-plugin-skeleton
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A simple skeleton for building WordPress plugins

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WP Plugin Skeleton
==================

[](#wp-plugin-skeleton)

That's just another skeleton for quickly prototyping of WordPress plugins.

It comes out of the box with:

- PHPStan
- PHP\_CodeSniffer
- PHPUnit
- Travis Yaml file
- Twig
- Make commands

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

It's recommended that you use Composer to install this library.

Inside of `wp-content/plugins` run the command:

```
$ composer create-project adrianoferreira/wp-plugin-skeleton:dev-master

```

Make commands
-------------

[](#make-commands)

Make a production build of the plugin and place it inside of the `./build` folder:

```
$ make build

```

Run unit tests, style check and static files check:

```
$ make test

```

Development build:

```
$ make dev

```

###  Health Score

20

—

LowBetter than 13% of packages

Maintenance17

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity35

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4672632?v=4)[Adriano Ferreira](/maintainers/adrianosferreira)[@adrianosferreira](https://github.com/adrianosferreira)

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Top Contributors

[![adrianosferreira](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4672632?v=4)](https://github.com/adrianosferreira "adrianosferreira (16 commits)")

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wordpresswordpress-developmentwordpress-pluginswp-plugin-skeleton

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