wp-dev-skills: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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wp-dev-skills copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from mralaminahamed/wp-dev-skills. It costs 650 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions that give AI coding agents access to WordPress plugin-development skills. The listed skills cover areas such as WooCommerce, testing, coding standards, PHP analysis, continuous integration, and build tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing, testing, reviewing, building, or releasing WordPress plugins and WooCommerce extensions.
Why use it?
They tell an agent which specialized guidance to follow for a particular WordPress task, reducing guesswork about established development and review practices.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is mralaminahamed/wp-dev-skills's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on wp-dev-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything wp-dev-skills configures →

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.github/copilot-instructions.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

wp-dev-skills — WordPress Plugin Development Skills

You have access to WordPress plugin development skills. When a task matches a skill, follow that skill's methodology.

Skills

wp-github-flow — Shipping commits/branches/PRs, debugging GitHub issues, conventional commits, branch naming, PR labels.

wp-woocommerce — WooCommerce extensions: product types, payment gateways, shipping methods, REST API, HPOS, cart/checkout blocks, orders, coupons, tax, webhooks.

wp-plugin-testing — Plugin tests: PHPUnit (WP test suite), Brain\Monkey, WP_Mock, Codeception, redirect harness, HTTP mocking, multisite tests, GitHub Actions CI.

wp-coding-standards — PHPCS + WPCS setup, phpcs.xml.dist config, sniff violations, PHPCS in CI. (PHPStan → use wp-phpstan-stubs instead.)

wp-ci-qa — Fix PR QA failures: read QA feedback, trace root causes, scoped commits, label updates, QA re-test comment.

wp-phpstan-stubs — Scaffold a PHPStan stubs package for a third-party plugin/library: composer.json, bootstrap, finder, generate script, release workflow.

wp-build-tools — JS/CSS build pipeline: @wordpress/scripts, webpack, Vite, entry points, .asset.php enqueuing, Sass/PostCSS, dependency reuse.

wp-background-processing — Async jobs: Action Scheduler, WP_Background_Process, WP Cron, batch chunking, retry/error handling.

wp-multisite — Multisite/network: activation scope, network admin, per-site vs network options, switch_to_blog(), super-admin capabilities.

wp-i18n-workflow — Translation pipeline: POT generation, PO→MO, JS JSON, translate.wordpress.org, language packs, debugging.

wp-database — Custom tables: dbDelta schema, versioned migrations, $wpdb CRUD, prepared statements, query optimisation.

wp-email-templates — Transactional HTML emails: branded base shell, reusable content templates, wp_mail() integration.

wp-freemius — Freemius SDK: feature gating, license management, trial, pricing page, opt-in analytics, multisite licensing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

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wp-dev-skills copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mralaminahamed/wp-dev-skills (27 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 650 tokens to every session, about $0.0032 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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