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Agent Skills: WordPress Best Practices

WordPress development standards. Triggers when working with WordPress plugins, themes, hooks, REST API, or Gutenberg blocks.

UncategorizedID: jcastillotx/vibe-skeleton-app/wordpress-best-practices

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pnpm dlx add-skill https://github.com/jcastillotx/vibe-skeleton-app/tree/HEAD/setup/skills/wordpress-best-practices

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setup/skills/wordpress-best-practices/SKILL.md

Skill Metadata

Name
wordpress-best-practices
Description
WordPress development standards. Triggers when working with WordPress plugins, themes, hooks, REST API, or Gutenberg blocks.

WordPress Best Practices

Comprehensive coding standards for WordPress development, optimized for AI agents and LLMs.

Overview

This skill provides 25 rules organized across 8 categories:

  1. Security Hardening (security-) - Output escaping, input sanitization, nonces [CRITICAL]
  2. Database Optimization (database-) - Autoload options, transients, meta queries [HIGH]
  3. Performance (perf-) - Asset enqueuing, lazy loading, heartbeat [HIGH]
  4. Plugin Development (plugin-) - Prefixing, hooks, activation/deactivation [MEDIUM-HIGH]
  5. Theme Development (theme-) - Template hierarchy, child themes, customizer [MEDIUM]
  6. REST API (api-) - Permissions, schemas, namespacing [MEDIUM]
  7. Multisite (multisite-) - Network admin, site switching [LOW-MEDIUM]
  8. Gutenberg/Blocks (blocks-) - Block patterns, InnerBlocks [LOW-MEDIUM]

Usage

Reference this skill when:

  • Developing WordPress plugins
  • Creating or modifying themes
  • Building custom Gutenberg blocks
  • Implementing REST API endpoints
  • Optimizing WordPress performance

Build

pnpm build    # Compile rules to AGENTS.md
pnpm validate # Validate rule files