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spress/spress-installer
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Installer for Spress addons

v2.1.0(9y ago)07.4k18MITPHP

Since Jan 8Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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Spress add-ons installer
------------------------

[](#spress-add-ons-installer)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c2b446d5f500da5cd0edb0bf0a549d4c17482537b7d53517c5a3f0ce1bb3c9b3/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f7370726573732f5370726573732d696e7374616c6c65722e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/spress/Spress-installer)

Plugin and theme installer for Spress using Composer.

Package type supported:

- spress-plugin
- spress-theme

### Installation

[](#installation)

Adds the following to your Spress plugin or theme `composer.json` file:

```
"require": {
    "yosymfony/spress-installer": "~2.1"
}
```

**Notice** PluginInstaller 2.1 requires **Spress >= 2.2.0**.

### Extra values

[](#extra-values)

```
"extra": {
    "spress_class": {
        "MyVendor\\MyPlugin\\PluginClass1",
        "MyVendor\\MyPlugin\\PluginClass2"
    }
}
```

- **spress\_class**: class names of the plugins (including namespaces).

### An example of `composer.json` file

[](#an-example-of-composerjson-file)

First, an example for a simple plugin without namespaces:

```
{
    "name": "myname/my-spress-plugin",
    "type": "spress-plugin",
    "license": "MIT",
    "require": {
        "yosymfony/spress-installer": "~2.1"
    }
}
```

Second, an example for a plugin using namespace:

```
{
    "name": "myname/my-spress-plugin",
    "type": "spress-plugin",
    "license": "MIT",
    "require": {
        "yosymfony/spress-installer": "~2.1"
    },
    "extra": {
        "spress_class": {
            "MyVendor\\MyPlugin\\PluginClass"
        }
    }
}
```

Unit tests
----------

[](#unit-tests)

You can run the unit tests with the following command:

```
$ cd your-path
$ composer.phar install
$ phpunit
```

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community22

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 64.3% 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

Every ~125 days

Recently: every ~114 days

Total

10

Last Release

3419d ago

Major Versions

v1.1.0 → v2.0.02015-12-31

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3321099?v=4)[Yo! Symfony](/maintainers/yosymfony)[@yosymfony](https://github.com/yosymfony)

---

Top Contributors

[![yosymfony](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3321099?v=4)](https://github.com/yosymfony "yosymfony (36 commits)")[![victorpuertas](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3154875?v=4)](https://github.com/victorpuertas "victorpuertas (17 commits)")[![psion](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/378358?v=4)](https://github.com/psion "psion (2 commits)")[![ArnaudLigny](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/80580?v=4)](https://github.com/ArnaudLigny "ArnaudLigny (1 commits)")

---

Tags

phpspressinstallerpluginsthemesspress

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