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psycle-wordpress/wordpress-core-installer
=========================================

A custom installer to handle deploying WordPress with composer

1.1.0(10y ago)0334GPL-2.0+PHP

Since Jul 9Pushed 8y ago3 watchersCompare

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

[](#wordpress-core-installer)

This is a [custom Composer installer](http://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/custom-installers.md) for WordPress core. It is a proof of concept, but feel free to use it. The package is on [packagist](http://packagist.org) and the package name is `psycle-wordpress/wordpress-core-installer`.

### 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": {
	"psycle-wordpress/wordpress-core-installer": "~0.1"
}

```

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": "custom/path"
}

```

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

```
"extra": {
	"wordpress-install-dir": {
		"wordpress/wordpress": "wordpress",
		"psycle-wordpress/wordpress": "psy-wordpress"
	}
}

```

### License

[](#license)

This is licensed under the GPL version 2 or later.

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 69% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 67.7% 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 ~17 days

Recently: every ~49 days

Total

14

Last Release

3834d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8c46fb3d26f5d9cc24b47aba46eab6801a7dc50271e2894f115af56f96ddee43?d=identicon)[jamesrobinson-psycle](/maintainers/jamesrobinson-psycle)

---

Top Contributors

[![jamesrobinson-psycle](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13469492?v=4)](https://github.com/jamesrobinson-psycle "jamesrobinson-psycle (21 commits)")[![jscrobinson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/235064?v=4)](https://github.com/jscrobinson "jscrobinson (6 commits)")[![austingoudge](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/999018?v=4)](https://github.com/austingoudge "austingoudge (2 commits)")[![johnpbloch](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/446833?v=4)](https://github.com/johnpbloch "johnpbloch (2 commits)")

---

Tags

wordpress

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