wp-plugin-development

wp-plugin-development is a skill for Claude Code from dr-robert-li/cowork-wordpress-expert. It costs 50 tokens per session (888 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for developing WordPress plugins, which are add-ons that extend a WordPress site. It covers plugin structure, WordPress hooks, settings pages, scheduled tasks, security and release packaging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or refactoring plugins, adding admin settings, managing activation or uninstall actions, fixing security issues or preparing a release.
Why use it?
It provides a checklist and workflow for handling the WordPress-specific parts of plugin development safely and consistently.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dr-robert-li/cowork-wordpress-expert/wp-plugin-development
Any agent
npx skills add dr-robert-li/cowork-wordpress-expert --skill wp-plugin-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 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 888 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00050 $0.00888
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00444
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00089

Measured 6d ago against content hash 89f320ecffc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wp-plugin-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 6d 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-plugin-development/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WP Plugin Development

When to use

Use this skill for plugin work such as:

  • creating or refactoring plugin structure (bootstrap, includes, namespaces/classes)
  • adding hooks/actions/filters
  • activation/deactivation/uninstall behavior and migrations
  • adding settings pages / options / admin UI (Settings API)
  • security fixes (nonces, capabilities, sanitization/escaping, SQL safety)
  • packaging a release (build artifacts, readme, assets)

Inputs required

  • Repo root + target plugin(s) (path to plugin main file if known).
  • Where this plugin runs: single site vs multisite; WP.com conventions if applicable.
  • Target WordPress + PHP versions (affects available APIs and placeholder support in $wpdb->prepare()).

Procedure

0) Triage and locate plugin entrypoints

  1. Run triage:
    • node skills/wp-project-triage/scripts/detect_wp_project.mjs
  2. Detect plugin headers (deterministic scan):
    • node skills/wp-plugin-development/scripts/detect_plugins.mjs

If this is a full site repo, pick the specific plugin under wp-content/plugins/ or mu-plugins/ before changing code.

1) Follow a predictable architecture

Guidelines:

  • Keep a single bootstrap (main plugin file with header).
  • Avoid heavy side effects at file load time; load on hooks.
  • Prefer a dedicated loader/class to register hooks.
  • Keep admin-only code behind is_admin() (or admin hooks) to reduce frontend overhead.

See:

  • references/structure.md

2) Hooks and lifecycle (activation/deactivation/uninstall)

Activation hooks are fragile; follow guardrails:

  • register activation/deactivation hooks at top-level, not inside other hooks
  • flush rewrite rules only when needed and only after registering CPTs/rules
  • uninstall should be explicit and safe (uninstall.php or register_uninstall_hook)

See:

  • references/lifecycle.md

3) Settings and admin UI (Settings API)

Prefer Settings API for options:

  • register_setting(), add_settings_section(), add_settings_field()
  • sanitize via sanitize_callback

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 6d ago First seen · 113 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 89f320ecffc5

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wp-plugin-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository dr-robert-li/cowork-wordpress-expert (28 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 888 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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