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moox/wordpress-core-installer
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A Composer custom installer to handle installing WordPress as a dependency

4.0.0(7mo ago)11GPL-2.0-or-laterPHPPHP >=8.3CI passing

Since Oct 7Pushed 7mo agoCompare

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WordPress Core Installer
========================

[](#wordpress-core-installer)

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*This is a fork of [roots/wordpress-core-installer](https://github.com/roots/wordpress-core-installer) with some fixes to enhance compatibility with [moox/press](https://packagist.org/packages/moox/press)*

A custom Composer plugin to install WordPress core outside of `vendor`.

This installer is meant to support a rather specific WordPress installation setup in which WordPress is installed in a subdirectory ([see the WordPress codex on that subject](https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)) and in which the location of `WP_CONTENT_DIR` and `WP_CONTENT_URL` have been customized to be outside of WordPress core ([see the WordPress codex on that subject](https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_wp-content_folder)). This is because composer will delete your whole wp-content directory every time it updates core if you don't separate the two. If that installation setup isn't what you are looking for, then this installer is probably not something you will want to use.

For more information on this site setup and using Composer to manage a whole WordPress site, [check out @Rarst's informational website](https://composer.rarst.net/) which also includes [a site stack example using this package](https://composer.rarst.net/recipe/site-stack/).

### Usage

[](#usage)

To set up a custom WordPress build package to use this as a custom installer, add the following to your package's composer file:

```
"type": "wordpress-core",
"require": {
	"moox/wordpress-core-installer": "^3.0"
}
```

By default, this package will install a `wordpress-core` type package in the `wordpress` directory. To change this you can add the following to either your custom WordPress core type package or the root composer package:

```
"extra": {
	"wordpress-install-dir": "public/wp"
}
```

This works not only in the project's composer.json but also in a package's composer.json, the reason for the fork, and we default to `public/wp`.

The root composer package can also declare custom paths as an object keyed by package name:

```
"extra": {
	"wordpress-install-dir": {
		"wordpress/wordpress": "wordpress",
		"roots/wordpress-core": "roots-wordpress"
	}
}
```

### License

[](#license)

This is licensed under the GPL version 2 or later.

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance63

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity50

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 66.3% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

223d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/40421928?v=4)[Alf Drollinger](/maintainers/adrolli)[@adrolli](https://github.com/adrolli)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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