wp-block-development

wp-block-development is a skill for Claude Code from dr-robert-li/cowork-wordpress-expert. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,451 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building and maintaining WordPress editor blocks, which are reusable content components such as buttons, galleries, or pricing sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create blocks, define their settings and editor behavior, add server-rendered output, handle older block versions, and run block build and test workflows.
Why use it?
It helps avoid blocks that fail to save, lose their settings, render incorrectly, or break when their structure changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the wordpress-expert plugin — 54 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create blocks, define their settings and editor behavior, add server-rendered output, handle older block versions, and run block build and test workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dr-robert-li/cowork-wordpress-expert/wp-block-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add dr-robert-li/cowork-wordpress-expert --skill wp-block-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dr-robert-li/cowork-wordpress-expert

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wordpress-expert, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,451 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00067 $0.01451
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00580
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00145

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0bb162e63148, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wp-block-development scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

references/wp-block-development/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WP Block Development

When to use

Use this skill for block work such as:

  • creating a new block, or updating an existing one
  • changing block.json (scripts/styles/supports/attributes/render/viewScriptModule)
  • fixing “block invalid / not saving / attributes not persisting”
  • adding dynamic rendering (render.php / render_callback)
  • block deprecations and migrations (deprecated versions)
  • build tooling for blocks (@wordpress/scripts, @wordpress/create-block, wp-env)

Inputs required

  • Repo root and target (plugin vs theme vs full site).
  • The block name/namespace and where it lives (path to block.json if known).
  • Target WordPress version range (especially if using modules / viewScriptModule).

Procedure

0) Triage and locate blocks

  1. Run triage:
    • node skills/wp-project-triage/scripts/detect_wp_project.mjs
  2. List blocks (deterministic scan):
    • node skills/wp-block-development/scripts/list_blocks.mjs
  3. Identify the block root (directory containing block.json) you’re changing.

If this repo is a full site (wp-content/ present), be explicit about which plugin/theme contains the block.

1) Create a new block (if needed)

If you are creating a new block, prefer scaffolding rather than hand-rolling structure:

  • Use @wordpress/create-block to scaffold a modern block/plugin setup.
  • If you need Interactivity API from day 1, use the interactive template.

Read:

  • references/creating-new-blocks.md

After scaffolding:

  1. Re-run the block list script and confirm the new block root.
  2. Continue with the remaining steps (model choice, metadata, registration, serialization).

2) Ensure apiVersion 3 (WordPress 6.9+)

WordPress 6.9 enforces apiVersion: 3 in the block.json schema. Blocks with apiVersion 2 or lower trigger console warnings when SCRIPT_DEBUG is enabled.

Why this matters:

  • WordPress 7.0 will run the post editor in an iframe regardless of block apiVersion.
  • apiVersion 3 ensures your block works correctly inside the iframed editor (style isolation, viewport units, media queries).

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 175 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 0bb162e63148

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wp-block-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository dr-robert-li/cowork-wordpress-expert (29 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,451 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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