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tomjn/composerpress
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Takes stock of a local install and generates a composer.json

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Composerpress
=============

[](#composerpress)

Retroactively attempts to create a `composer.json` for a WordPress site. On activation, a `composer.json` menu appears in the admin area under the Tools menu. This page shows what composerpress thinks a `composer.json` that will generate a website close or identical to the site the plugin is installed on might look like.

Includes support for detecting/reverse engineering composer packages via:

- [packagist](https://packagist.org/)
- [wpackagist](https://wpackagist.org/)\*
- private [mercurial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial) repositories
- private [git](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git) repositories
- private [svn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Subversion) repositories
- non-composer plugins residing in git/svn/mercurial repositories

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### Installation Notes

[](#installation-notes)

Install as a regular plugin and then run `composer install` on the `wp-content/plugins/composerpress` plugin folder to install dependencies.

For instructions on installing composer: [ see here for \*nix](http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-nix) and [here for Windows](http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows)

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TODOs:
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[](#todos)

Currently ComposerPress does not perform any checking with wpackagist [\#2](https://github.com/tomjn/composerpress/issues/2) (or similaries), leaving open these problems:

- when a *TextDomain* doesn't match a *Plugins Name* ?
- when a plugin doesn't match its *Folder Name* ?
- when a *Plugin is Custom to a site* (ie doesn't exist in the wp.org repo)?

### Keep in mind

[](#keep-in-mind)

1. At present, if composerpress can not find the source of a plugin, the choice will fall back on the default "composerpress" (to help you recognize them and act accordingly)
2. If you encounter a false positive try to contact plugin's author and ask them to insert, at least a `Plugin URI:` in the header of the plugin; for example: these two plugins could collide if a URI plugin was not specified:

- `Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-less/` that will become something like `wpackagist-plugin/wp-less`
- `Plugin URI: https://github.com/sanchothefat/wp-less/` that will become something like `sanchothefat/wp-less`

3. You can always give an help and contribute... 😄

### Author articles

[](#author-articles)

- [ComposerPress "Brief"](https://tomjn.com/2013/10/01/composerpress/)
- [Wordpress & Composer TLDR](https://tomjn.com/2015/09/03/wordpress-and-composer-tldr/)
- [ComposerPress "Project"](https://tomjn.com/projects/composerpress/)

###  Health Score

20

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LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance33

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity17

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 77.4% 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.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![tomjn](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/58855?v=4)](https://github.com/tomjn "tomjn (72 commits)")[![Raruto](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9614886?v=4)](https://github.com/Raruto "Raruto (21 commits)")

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