wordpress-backend-dev

wordpress-backend-dev is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vladolaru/claude-code-plugins. It costs 66 tokens per session (2,470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building and reviewing WordPress PHP code using WordPress coding and security practices. It covers hooks, translations, database access, REST and AJAX handlers, and admin interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing WordPress plugins and themes, building REST or AJAX features, adding admin settings, handling database queries, or fixing coding-standard issues.
Why use it?
It helps prevent common WordPress problems such as unsafe output, injection, missing request protection, and inconsistent translations. It also provides patterns for working with WordPress APIs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pirategoat-tools plugin — 22 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/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/wordpress-backend-dev
Any agent
npx skills add vladolaru/claude-code-plugins --skill wordpress-backend-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pirategoat-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,470 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 $0.00066 $0.02470
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.01235
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00247

Measured yesterday against content hash ce87148d6642, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wordpress-backend-dev 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/pirategoat-tools/skills/wordpress-backend-dev/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Directory

Resolve SKILL_DIR to the absolute directory containing this SKILL.md, as shown by the current host, before using any bundled path below. Before a shell command uses $SKILL_DIR, assign it in that command or replace it with the resolved path. It is not a host-exported environment variable.

WordPress Backend Development

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for WordPress backend PHP development, covering coding standards, internationalization, security, and best practices.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Writing PHP code for WordPress plugins or themes
  • Reviewing WordPress PHP code for quality
  • Implementing internationalization (i18n) for translatable strings
  • Working with WordPress hooks (actions and filters)
  • Handling database operations with WPDB
  • Building REST API endpoints
  • Implementing AJAX handlers
  • Creating admin menu pages and settings screens
  • Ensuring security in WordPress code

Common Errors This Skill Addresses

If you encounter these errors, this skill has the fix:

Error/Symptom Solution Location
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput security.md → Output Escaping
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification security.md → Nonces
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput security.md → Input Sanitization
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL database.md → Prepared Statements
WordPress.WP.I18n errors i18n.md → Core Functions
Translators comment is malformed i18n.md → Translator Comments
"Security check failed" security.md → Nonces
"Permission denied" security.md → Capability Checks
XSS vulnerability in code review security.md → Output Escaping
SQL injection warning database.md → Prepared Statements
CSRF vulnerability security.md → Nonces
"Nonce verification failed" security.md → AJAX Nonces
rest_forbidden error rest-api-authentication.md
AJAX returns 0 or -1 ajax.md → Common Issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 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. yesterday First seen · 257 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A ce87148d6642

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wordpress-backend-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository vladolaru/claude-code-plugins (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 2,470 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 2026-09-03.

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