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deliciousmedia/dm-base
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Base functionality, helpers and modifications to WordPress for Delicious Media projects.

1.4.1(2mo ago)20GPL-3.0-or-laterPHP

Since Feb 25Pushed 2mo agoCompare

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DM Base
=======

[](#dm-base)

Base functionality, helpers and modifications to WordPress for Delicious Media projects.

### Changes to WordPress.

[](#changes-to-wordpress)

- Disables comment/trackback functionality (Toggle with `DM_DISABLE_COMMENTS`; default true).
- Disables builtin search functionality (Toggle with `DM_DISABLE_SEARCH`; default false).
- Disables output of emoji styles/scripts (Toggle with `DM_DISABLE_EMOJIS`; default true) ☹️.
- Disables RSS feeds (Toggle with `DM_DISABLE_RSS`; default true).
- Prevents anonymous access to the REST API (Toggle with `DM_DISABLE_REST_ANON`; default true). By filtering `dm_allowed_anonymous_restnamespaces` individual namespaces can be whitelisted.
- Modifies plugin install screen to show our recommended plugins first (Toggle with `DM_MODIFY_PLUGINS_SCREEN`; default true).
- Removes XMLRPC functionality; X-Pingback headers; tidies up wp\_head();
- Prevents enumeration of usernames via ?author=n query strings, helpful for tickybox PCI audits (toggled with `DM_PREVENT_USER_ENUM`; default true).
- Enables the use of real GUIDS (toggled with `DM_USE_REAL_GUIDS`; default false).

### Additional functionality

[](#additional-functionality)

- Tracks last login times for users accounts (Toggle with `DM_LASTLOGIN`; defaults to true).
- Adds logging, fatal error handler.
- Adds an environment indicator to the admin bar.
- Adds dm\_developer role.
- Ability to force enable/disable plugins by environment (or other arbitrary rules).
- Ability to sync ACF fields between environments.

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

[](#installation)

Install via Composer (`composer require deliciousmedia/dm-base`), or just clone/copy the files to your mu-plugins folder.

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Built by the team at [Delicious Media](https://www.deliciousmedia.co.uk/), a specialist WordPress development agency based in Sheffield, UK.

###  Health Score

34

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LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance86

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity36

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.9% 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

2

Last Release

73d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b67aeea9b2d5c1d479d3890134793a0669313dbe07d88e74dc4e77fc4f22a508?d=identicon)[davepullig](/maintainers/davepullig)

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Top Contributors

[![davepullig](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5207810?v=4)](https://github.com/davepullig "davepullig (89 commits)")[![kerry-manning](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33422609?v=4)](https://github.com/kerry-manning "kerry-manning (1 commits)")

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