Hybrid PHPCS ruleset for OOP WordPress development

• PHP_CodeSniffer
• PSR-12
• Neutron PHP Ruleset by Automattic
• Slevomat Coding Standard

Features

• PSR-12 Extended Coding Style as starting point (formatting)
• All WPCS features through Neutron (except formatting)
• File permission bits
• Strict types
• File, class and method comments
• Handpicked Slevomat rules

Usage

composer require --dev szepeviktor/phpcs-psr-12-neutron-hybrid-ruleset

./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=PSR12NeutronRuleset src/

About the @package tag

• The origins of the @package tag are in PEAR
  where packages are called for example Net_Ping
• You can put your Composer package name there: yoast/phpunit-polyfills
• Or you can use your WordPress.org plugin slug: wordpress-seo