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September 28, 2022

WordPress, VS Code, Code Sniffers and Coding standards: The Right Way

Marinus Klasen

Every now and then I make a change in my development environment and.. I am back at re-configuring the whole setup.

Let’s get that over with once and for all.

The setup that works

This is my environment:

  • Visual Studio Code with
    • PHP Sniffer by wongjn
  • Composer with
    • squizlabs/php_codesniffer
    • wp-coding-standards/wpcs

The root of my workspace contains a phpcs.xml that looks as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ruleset name="mklasen-project">
    <description>PHPCS</description>
    <config name="installed_paths" value="app/www/vendor/wp-coding-standards/wpcs" />
    <config name="ignore_warnings_on_exit" value="1" />
    <rule ref="WordPress"/>
    <file>.</file>
    <exclude-pattern>*/app/www/vendor/*</exclude-pattern>
    <exclude-pattern>*/app/frontend/node_modules/*</exclude-pattern>
</ruleset>

And a composer.json file that sets the vendor dir to app/www/vendor, as follows:

"config": {
 "vendor-dir": "app/www/vendor"
}

Make sure you’re Workspace and General settings are empty!

  • Check .vscode/settings.json in your workspace and clear it
  • Hit CMD (cntrl) + shift + P and enter ‘settings.json’ and check your custom settings to see if any PHPSniffer settings are active, clear them out if necessary

That’s it! That should do the job!

About Marinus Klasen

Marinus has been working in software/web development for more than a decade. Since 2020 his attention shifted on sharing knowledge and developing products and tools for sharing knowledge.

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