Pronamic WordPress File Header

Many WordPress plugins contain bash scripts with sed and awk commands to update WordPress file headers. Because sed and awk commands are difficult to read and can be error prone we have developed this library. This library makes it easy to read and/or edit WordPress file headers in for example plugin.php, style.css or readme.txt.

Table of contents

• Getting Started
• Command Line Usage
  • Examples
• Alternatives
• Links

Getting Started

Installation

To start documenting your WordPress filters and actions, require Pronamic WordPress Documentor in Composer:

composer require pronamic/wp-file-header --dev

Command Line Usage

Examples

vendor/bin/pronamic-wp-file-header get Version plugin.php

vendor/bin/pronamic-wp-file-header get 'Stable tag' readme.txt

vendor/bin/pronamic-wp-file-header get Version style.css

vendor/bin/pronamic-wp-file-header set Version 1.0.0 plugin.php

vendor/bin/pronamic-wp-file-header set 'Stable tag' 4.3 readme.txt

vendor/bin/pronamic-wp-file-header set Version 1.3 style.css

Alternatives

Here is a list of alternatives that we found. However, none of these satisfied our requirements.

If you know other similar projects, feel free to edit this section!

• wp-file-header-metadata by Ahmad Awais

Links

• https://codex.wordpress.org/File_Header
• https://codex.wordpress.org/File_Header_API
• https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/header-requirements/#header-fields
• https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/how-your-readme-txt-works/
• https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/main-stylesheet-style-css/
• https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-pkg
• https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_plugin_data/
• https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_file_data/
• https://github.com/wp-cli/i18n-command/blob/v2.4.0/src/FileDataExtractor.php