Develop and harden WordPress plugins with lifecycle and security guardrails

Use Automattic’s official wp-plugin-development skill when an agent needs to build, refactor, secure, or package a WordPress plugin with correct activation hooks, settings handling, uninstall behavior, and data hygiene. This is a plugin engineering playbook, not a generic WordPress listing.

Develop and harden WordPress plugins with lifecycle and security guardrails

Use Automattic’s official wp-plugin-development skill when an agent needs to build, refactor, secure, or package a WordPress plugin with correct activation hooks, settings handling, uninstall behavior, and data hygiene. This is a plugin engineering playbook, not a generic WordPress listing.

Installation

Method 1, Agent Skill Exchange

Method 2, Git clone

git clone https://github.com/agentskillexchange/skills.git && cd skills/skills/develop-and-harden-wordpress-plugins-with-lifecycle-and-security-guardrails

Method 3, Download ZIP

  • Download the repository ZIP and extract skills/develop-and-harden-wordpress-plugins-with-lifecycle-and-security-guardrails.

Method 4, Manual copy

  • Copy this skill folder into your local skills directory, then reload your agent tooling.

Method 5, Fork and sync

  • Fork the repository if you want to maintain local edits while syncing upstream changes.

Source