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wearerequired/custom-meta-boxes-mu-loader
=========================================

Loads Custom Meta Boxes as a must-use plugin.

1.1.1(8y ago)04.6k↓50%GPL-2.0+PHPPHP >=5.3

Since May 11Pushed 8y agoCompare

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Custom Meta Boxes MU-Loader
===========================

[](#custom-meta-boxes-mu-loader)

Loads [HM Custom Meta Boxes](https://github.com/humanmade/Custom-Meta-Boxes) as a must-use plugin.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

The package type is `wordpress-muplugin`. Example of a `composer.json`:

```
{
	"name": "wearerequired/something",
	"description": "required.com",
	"license": "GPL-2.0+",
	"authors": [
		{
			"name": "required gmbh",
			"email": "info@required.ch"
		}
	],
	"require": {
		"php": ">=5.3",
		"koodimonni/composer-dropin-installer": "dev-master",
		"johnpbloch/wordpress": "~4.9",
		"humanmade/custom-meta-boxes": "dev-develop",
		"wearerequired/custom-meta-boxes-mu-loader": "^1.0"
	},
	"repositories": [
		{
			"type": "package",
			"package": {
				"name": "humanmade/custom-meta-boxes",
				"type": "wordpress-plugin",
				"version": "dev-develop",
				"source": {
					"type": "git",
					"url": "git@github.com:humanmade/Custom-Meta-Boxes.git",
					"reference": "develop"
				}
			}
		}
	],
	"extra": {
		"wordpress-install-dir": "wordpress/wp",
		"installer-paths": {
			"wordpress/content/plugins/{$name}/": [
				"type:wordpress-plugin"
			],
			"vendor/{$vendor}/{$name}/": [
				"type:wordpress-muplugin"
			],
			"wordpress/content/themes/{$name}/": [
				"type:wordpress-theme"
			]
		},
		"dropin-paths": {
			"wordpress/content/mu-plugins/": [
				"type:wordpress-muplugin"
			]
		}
	},
	"minimum-stability": "dev",
	"prefer-stable": true
}
```

Why?
----

[](#why)

`wp-content/mu-plugins` is designed to only support plugins in a single file. HM Custom Meta Boxes has clearly more than one file. It also helps to keep the wp-content directory of your project as clean as possible. It should actually be empty because you're loading everything through composer. 😉

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 65% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 85.7% 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 ~216 days

Total

2

Last Release

3070d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.6

1.1.1PHP >=5.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1446895?v=4)[required](/maintainers/wearerequired)[@wearerequired](https://github.com/wearerequired)

---

Top Contributors

[![ocean90](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/617637?v=4)](https://github.com/ocean90 "ocean90 (6 commits)")[![grappler](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1785641?v=4)](https://github.com/grappler "grappler (1 commits)")

---

Tags

wordpress-mupluginwordpress-pluginwordpressloadermust-usemeta-boxes

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