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WordPress Coding Standard Setup Guideline

WPCS Setup Guideline

1. Install composer packages

composer global require squizlabs/php_codesniffer
composer global require wp-coding-standards/wpcs

Installation Test: Run the below command for checking phpcs is installed correctly.

phpcs -i

Problem Fix: command not found: phpcs

To fix this problem, add the phpcs path to your PATH variable.

phpcs and phpcbf installed path.

/Users/your_username/.composer/vendor/bin/phpcs
/Users/your_username/.composer/vendor/bin/phpcbf  

[Note] change your_username

2. Set WordPress as default coding standard

[Note] change your_username

phpcs --config-set installed_paths /Users/your_username/.composer/vendor/wp-coding-standards/wpcs

Default Standard Set default CS

phpcs --config-set default_standard WordPress

Installation Test

phpcs --config-show

3. To check a php file, run

phpcs abc.php

4. Run phpcbf for automatic fix, run

phpcbf abc.php

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