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boxuk/wp-project-skeleton
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A skeleton WordPress project to be used as a base for new WordPress projects.

v0.5.0(2y ago)54127↓100%7[7 PRs](https://github.com/boxuk/wp-project-skeleton/pulls)GPL-2.0-or-laterPHPCI passing

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BoxUK WordPress Project Skeleton
================================

[](#boxuk-wordpress-project-skeleton)

A base WordPress project from Box UK to get you up and running quickly.

[📚 Read the docs](https://boxuk.github.io/wp-packages/)
-------------------------------------------------------

[](#-read-the-docs)

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

[](#installation)

Create a new project with composer

```
composer create-project boxuk/wp-project-skeleton my-project --stability=dev
```

Install with the simple install script

```
bin/install --project=[project_name] --network=[docker_network_name] --php=[php_version]
```

All arguments are optional.

Defaults:

- Project Name = boxuk-wp-skeleton
- Network Name = boxuk-docker
- PHP Version = 8.2

> Note: This is an interactive command.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Frontend:

Admin:

If you need to update the admin password, you can run the following WP-CLI command:

```
bin/docker/wp user update admin --user_pass=your_password_here
```

Features
--------

[](#features)

📕 - Fully [documented](https://boxuk.github.io/wp-packages/docs/skeleton/).

🐳 - Fully dockerized setup

📦 - Composer based plugin management

🧠 - Xdebug installed by default

📋 - Configurable state across environments (WIP)

🪜 - Customisable fixtures support using the WP CLI (WIP)

🚩 - First class support for feature flags using [wp-feature-flags](https://github.com/boxuk/wp-feature-flags)

✅ - Unit, Integration and Visual Regression testing support

> You can read more about all of these features in [this post on the Box UK blog](https://www.boxuk.com/insight/how-we-develop-wordpress-sites/).

License
-------

[](#license)

[GPLv2](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-2.0/)

###  Health Score

41

—

FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance65

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community23

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 55.6% 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 ~162 days

Total

5

Last Release

1086d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3c8c170d78af034f9aee1c84e279b97e5b61b549ce8b8519ed8da81402ac8e96?d=identicon)[BoxUK](/maintainers/BoxUK)

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