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Welcome to the WordPress-Coding-Standards wiki!

Here you can learn things like how to:

• Customize the behaviour of WordPressCS using custom properties in your ruleset
• Fix errors relating to sanitizing input data, including:
  • Sanitizing array input data.
• Fix errors related to escaping, like how to:
  • Escape a WP_Error object.
• And if all else fails, you can ignore parts of a file.
• Set up your IDE to work with PHP_CodeSniffer & WordPressCS
  • Setting up WordPressCS to work in Atom
  • Setting up WPCS when using Eclipse with XAMPP
  • Setting up WordPressCS to work in Sublime Text
  • Setting up WordPressCS to work in PHPStorm (external link)
  • Setting up WordPressCS to work in Visual Studio (external link)
  • Setting up WordPressCS to work in Visual Studio with Remote-SSH (external link)
• Run in CI
  • Running in GitHub Actions
  • Running in Travis
• Upgrade Guide to WordPressCS 3.0.0 for ruleset maintainers
• Upgrade Guide to WordPressCS 3.0.0 for Developers of external standards
• Upgrade Guide to WordPressCS 2.0.0 for Developers of external standards
• Learn about the project's history