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Overview

Howdy is a starter kit for building WordPress plugins with modern development practices, featuring PSR-4 autoloading, code style checking for PHP and JavaScript, dependency scoping to avoid conflicts and React-based admin interfaces. It helps developers ship fast by providing pre-configured tools like Composer, PHP-Scoper, ESLint and WordPress scripts, requiring only PHP 7.4+, Composer and Node.js 20+.

Features

psr-4-autoloadingcomposer-integrationphp-code-snifferphp-scopereslintwordpress-scriptsreact-admin-interfacegutenberg-blocksasset-compilationfile-watchingproduction-buildtranslation-pot-generationnamespace-prefixingplugin-distribution

Feature Flags

userDashboardi18ngutenbergBlocks

Recommended Use Cases

wordpress-plugin-developmentgutenberg-block-creationwordpress-admin-interfaceplugin-distribution

Frontend

reactjavascripteslint

Backend

phpcomposer

Auth Providers

None

Deployment Targets

wordpress

Payment Providers

None

Quick Facts

⭐ Stars
49
🍴 Forks
4
🧾 License
gpl-2.0-or-later
🔄 Active
Unknown

Stack

Framework
wordpress
Language
php
CSS
tailwindcss

Data Layer

UI Stack

Components
react

Developer Experience

Docker
No
Tests
No
Quickstart
Yes
env.example
No

Pricing

Classification
free
Selected
Notes
No clear pricing signals
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