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lipsia/phpcs-wp-plugin-standard
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A custom phpcs ruleset for WordPress plugin development.

1.5.0(4y ago)1483MITPHP ^7.3

Since Feb 5Pushed 4y ago3 watchersCompare

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Lipsia Digital's WordPress plugin development standard
======================================================

[](#lipsia-digitals-wordpress-plugin-development-standard)

This is a superset of the [NeutronStandard](https://github.com/Automattic/phpcs-neutron-standard) and [PSR12](https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-12/) with some modifications.

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require --dev squizlabs/php_codesniffer dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer
composer require --dev lipsia/phpcs-wp-plugin-standard
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

In your project's ruleset file, enable this ruleset by setting the `` tag.

Minimal *phpcs.xml.dist*:

```

```

Or without a file:

```
./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=LDWordPressPlugin .
```

Opinions
--------

[](#opinions)

This ruleset is opinionated and that is a good thing.

### Rules that MUST NOT be changed

[](#rules-that-must-not-be-changed)

- main plugin file is in *./plugin.php*
- all other plugin files are autoloaded from *./src/*
- composer dependencies are in *./vendor/*
- convert tabs to 4 spaces

### Rules that CAN be changed

[](#rules-that-can-be-changed)

- use colors in report
- look into all files with extension *php*
- check 8 files in parallel

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity57

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 ~89 days

Recently: every ~156 days

Total

8

Last Release

1670d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d83d77ecac379eafe80e19fbe6e3e0a82fa419b1d160aa65c19e9155f8bc9cdd?d=identicon)[kingkero](/maintainers/kingkero)

---

Top Contributors

[![kingkero](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2728418?v=4)](https://github.com/kingkero "kingkero (47 commits)")

---

Tags

phpcswordpresswordpress plugin

###  Code Quality

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

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