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agilo/wp-package-installer
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0.6.0(2y ago)0980↓55.6%MITPHPPHP ^7.2 || ^8.0CI failing

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README
======

[](#readme)

(WIP) Enables installing WP plugins via Composer 2 (or Composer 1) inside [`johnpbloch/wordpress`](https://github.com/johnpbloch/wordpress). Replaces `drupal-composer/preserve-paths`.

- PHP 7.2 - 8.3 is supported
- Composer 1 & 2 is supported

Installation / Usage
--------------------

[](#installation--usage)

1. `mkdir your-project && cd your-project`
2. `composer init`
3. Add the following to your `composer.json` extra section:

```
{
  "extra": {
    "wordpress-install-dir": "public",
    "installer-paths": {
      "vendor-wp/wp-content/plugins/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-plugin"],
      "vendor-wp/wp-content/themes/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-theme"],
      "vendor-wp/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-muplugin"],
      "vendor-wp/wp-content/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-dropin"]
    },
    "agilo-wp-package-installer": {
      "sources": {
        "third-party": {
          "src": "vendor-wp",
          "dest": "public",
          "mode": "symlink"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

4. `composer require agilo/wp-package-installer`
5. `composer require johnpbloch/wordpress`

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

### Formatting code

[](#formatting-code)

1. Run `composer install --working-dir=tools/php-cs-fixer`
2. Run `./tools/php-cs-fixer/vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix`

### Running tests

[](#running-tests)

1. Run `composer install --working-dir=tools/phpunit`
2. Run `./tools/phpunit/vendor/bin/phpunit`

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 36% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity46

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

11

Last Release

1018d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7579624?v=4)[agilo](/maintainers/agilo)[@Agilo](https://github.com/Agilo)

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Top Contributors

[![ilimic1](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9499343?v=4)](https://github.com/ilimic1 "ilimic1 (90 commits)")

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Tags

composer-pluginwordpresswordpress-development

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