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Welcome to the WordPress-Coding-Standards wiki!

Here you can learn things like how to:

• Customize the behaviour of WPCS using custom properties in your ruleset
• Fix errors relating to sanitizing input data, including:
  • Sanitizing array input data.
• Fix errors related to escaping, like how to:
  • Escape a WP_Error object.
• And if all else fails, whitelist code that is being flagged with errors.
• Set up you IDE to work with PHPCS & WPCS
  • Setting up WPCS to work in Atom
  • Setting up WPCS when using Eclipse with XAMPP
  • Setting up WPCS to work in Sublime Text
  • Setting up WPCS to work in PHPStorm (external link)
  • Setting up WPCS to work in Visual Studio (external link)
  • Setting up WPCS to work in Visual Studio with Remote-SSH (external link)
• Running in CI
  • Running in GitHub Actions
• Upgrade Guide to WordPressCS 2.0.0 for Developers of external standards