PHPCSPHP Code Sniffer PHP Code Sniffer, a popular tool for analyzing code quality. The WordPress Coding Standards rely on PHPCS. (PHP_CodeSniffer) is a static analysis tool for PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher files that detects violations against the WordPress PHP Coding Standards

Setup

1. Install PHPCS.

2. Install WPCS.

3. Register the WPCSWordPress Community Support A public benefit corporation and a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, established in 2016. in PHPCS.

Editor and IDE Integration

Note: PHPCS must already be installed per the above instructions prior to confiruring your Editor/IDEIDE Integrated Development Environment. A software package that provides a full suite of functionality to software developers/programmers. Normally an IDE includes a source code editor, code-build tools and debugging functionality.

Atom

• 1. Install linter
• 2. Install linter-phpcs

Visual Studio Code

• 1. Install vscode-phpcs
• Note: Whilst waiting for the 1.0 release of vscode-phpcs due to an outstanding issue #33 the p needs to be removed from <arg value="ps"/> in the phpcs.xml.dist file.

Sublime Text

• 1. Install SublimeLinter
• 2. Install SublimeLinter-phpcs

Further Reading

• PHPCS Wiki
• PHPCS on Github
• WordPress Coing Standards on Github