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josh-taylor/wordpress
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Composer project for getting started with wordpress

4.1(11y ago)115GPLPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since May 28Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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Wordpress Skeleton
==================

[](#wordpress-skeleton)

A skeleton for creating WordPress applications

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

[](#installation)

1. Download [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md) or update `composer self-update`.
2. Run `php composer.phar create-project josh-taylor/wordpress [dir]`

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

You will need to copy the `wp-config.php` file from the `wp` directory that was created to the root of your project.

Plugins
-------

[](#plugins)

Plugins can be installed using wpackagist and then adding to the `composer.json` file.

E.g:

```
...
"require": {
  "wpackagist-plugin/woocommerce": "2.1.9"
}
...

```

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

Thanks to Roots for creating this awesome [blog post](http://roots.io/using-composer-with-wordpress/) on using composer with WordPress.

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~111 days

Total

3

Last Release

4149d ago

Major Versions

3.9.1 → 4.02014-09-16

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8e90bb8326f039d305035461e206f1d05cbc2887de66586ca9f755905b4cd660?d=identicon)[josh-taylor](/maintainers/josh-taylor)

---

Top Contributors

[![josh-taylor](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/675003?v=4)](https://github.com/josh-taylor "josh-taylor (5 commits)")

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