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picocms/composer-installer
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A composer plugin responsible for installing plugins and themes for Pico, a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.

v2.0.1(4mo ago)432.7k↓50%[1 PRs](https://github.com/picocms/composer-installer/pulls)3MITPHP >=7.2

Since Oct 13Compare

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###  Health Score

48

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FairBetter than 94% of packages

Maintenance75

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity29

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

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 ~997 days

Total

4

Last Release

138d ago

Major Versions

v1.0.1 → v2.0.02025-12-22

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9b9996baadbfa50b15b704947db1aad17b75eae0350e36403e454bc845c83ab4?d=identicon)[PhrozenByte](/maintainers/PhrozenByte)

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c7bf534597b7be79c8678a77aed2bc8f1b813a73b835ced53b1fb3644482744c?d=identicon)[picocms](/maintainers/picocms)

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Top Contributors

[![PhrozenByte](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/920356?v=4)](https://github.com/PhrozenByte "PhrozenByte (15 commits)")

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Tags

composercomposer-plugincomposer-installerpicopicocmspico-cmspicocms-pluginpicocms-themepicocms-installer

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