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ernilambar/monal
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WordPress Theme Onboarding Library.

1.0.3(3y ago)2361GPL-3.0+PHPPHP >=5.6

Since Mar 22Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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Monal
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[](#monal)

WordPress Theme Onboarding Library.

*This is reduced and refined version of Merlin WP. If you need all features then you should go with Merlin WP.*

**Note:** If you are trying to include this in the theme to be submitted in WordPress.org Theme Directory then your theme wont be accepted. Theme importing library is not allowed to be bundled in the theme as per the WordPress Theme Review Guidelines.

License
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[](#license)

[GPL-3.0+](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)

Author
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[](#author)

[Nilambar Sharma](https://www.nilambar.net)

Credits
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[](#credits)

[Merlin WP](https://github.com/richtabor/MerlinWP)

###  Health Score

22

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LowBetter than 21% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity43

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 ~25 days

Total

4

Last Release

1113d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2098823?v=4)[Nilambar Sharma](/maintainers/ernilambar)[@ernilambar](https://github.com/ernilambar)

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Top Contributors

[![ernilambar](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2098823?v=4)](https://github.com/ernilambar "ernilambar (27 commits)")

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Tags

wordpressonboarding

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