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wp-plugin-development

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Build safer, structured WordPress plugins.

WordPress plugin development

What it does

Guides the creation, refactoring, security hardening, and release packaging of WordPress plugins.

When to use it

Use for WordPress plugin structure, hooks, lifecycle behavior, settings, security, and release packaging.

How to use it

Give it a plugin project, deployment context, target versions, and the requested plugin work; it updates and verifies the project.

What you provide

  • the target plugin
  • single site or multisite
  • WordPress and PHP versions
  • An existing project

Uses


Access · 2

This skill

WordPress Plugin Handbook and security guidelines

Read

Reads canonical WordPress guidance

PHP error logs

Read

Reads PHP error logs

What you need · 5

Requires node to run the project-triage and plugin-detection scripts.

Targets PHP 7.4.0 or newer.

Targets WordPress 7.0 or newer for plugin operation and verification.

The procedure runs the wp-project-triage detection script before locating plugin entrypoints.


About this skill

Visibility
Public
Repository
wordpress/agent-skills
Created
Oct 8, 2026
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Files
8