Setting up WordPressCS to work in Atom

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jrfnl edited this page Aug 20, 2023 · 1 revision

Install PHP_CodeSniffer and the WordPress Coding Standards per the installation instructions for a global install in the readme.
Install linter-phpcs via Atom's package manager.
Run which phpcs to get your phpcs executable path.
Open the linter-phpcs package settings; enter your phpcs executable path and one of the coding standards specified above (e.g. WordPress, etc.).
Below these settings find the Tab Width setting and change it to 4.

Atom Linter WordPress Coding Standards configuration

Atom Linter in action using WordPress Coding Standards

Note that certain items within PHPCS config file can cause linting to fail, see linter-phpcs #95 for more details.