pronamic / wp-documentor
Documentation Generator for WordPress.
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Requires
- php: >=8.0
- phpdocumentor/reflection: ^4.0
- phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock: ^5.2
- symfony/console: ^5.0 || ^6.0 || ^6.1 || ^6.2
- symfony/filesystem: ^5.0 || ^6.0 || ^6.1 || ^6.2
- symfony/finder: ^5.0 || ^6.0 || ^6.1 || ^6.2
- symfony/polyfill-php80: ^1.24
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README
Pronamic WordPress Documentor
Pronamic WordPress Documentor is a tool to automatically extract data about the actions and filters of your WordPress theme or plugin.
Table of contents
Getting Started
Installation
To start documenting your WordPress filters and actions, require Pronamic WordPress Documentor in Composer:
composer require pronamic/wp-documentor --dev
First Run
To let Pronamic WordPress Documentor analyse your codebase, you have to use the parse command and point it to the right directory:
vendor/bin/wp-documentor parse src
Command Line Usage
--format=FORMAT
The format in which you want to export the hooks.
Example: --format=markdown
--template=FILE
Custom PHP template, see for examples the templates folder.
Example: --template=templates/markdown.php
--type=TYPE
Specify whether you want to export actions or filters.
Example: --type=actions or --type=filters
--output=FILE
Write output to file.
Example: --output=docs/hooks.md
--memory-limit=VALUE
Specifies the memory limit in the same format php.ini accepts.
Example: --memory-limit=-1
--exclude=GLOB
Exclude the specified folders/files.
Example: --exclude=vendor --exclude=wordpress
--ignore-vcs-ignored
If the search directory contains a .gitignore file, you can reuse those rules to exclude files and directories from the results with this option.
Example: --ignore-vcs-ignored
--prefix=PREFIX
Only parse hooks starting with the specified prefixes.
Example: --prefix=my_theme --prefix=my_plugin
Examples
vendor/bin/wp-documentor parse ./tests/source
vendor/bin/wp-documentor parse ./tests/source --format=hookster --type=actions --output=tests/docs/hookster-actions.json
vendor/bin/wp-documentor parse ./tests/source --format=hookster --type=filters --output=tests/docs/hookster-filters.json
vendor/bin/wp-documentor parse ./tests/source --format=markdown --output=tests/docs/hooks.md
vendor/bin/wp-documentor parse ./tests/source --format=phpdocumentor-rst --type=actions --output=tests/docs/phpdocumentor-actions.rst
vendor/bin/wp-documentor parse ./tests/source --format=phpdocumentor-rst --type=filters --output=tests/docs/phpdocumentor-filters.rst
Ouput Examples
- tests/docs/hooks.md
- tests/docs/hookster-actions.json
- tests/docs/hookster-filters.json
- https://github.com/wp-pay-gateways/omnikassa-2/blob/2.3.2/docs/hooks.md
- https://github.com/wp-pay-gateways/adyen/blob/1.3.1/docs/hooks.md
- https://github.com/wp-pay-gateways/mollie/blob/2.2.3/docs/hooks.md
- https://github.com/wp-pay-extensions/gravityforms/blob/2.6.0/docs/hooks.md
- https://github.com/wp-pay/core/blob/2.7.0/docs/hooks.md
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 Parser by WordPress
- Hookster by Theme Blvd
- WordPress HookDoc by Matthias Günter
- GitHub Actions for WordPress by 10up
- Yoast Parser by Yoast
- WooCommerce Code Reference Generator by WooCommerce
- WordPress Hooks Reference by John Blackbourn / Human Made
- wp-hooks-generator by John Blackbourn / Human Made
Inspiration from https://github.com/TypistTech/imposter-plugin#alternatives
Links
- https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/hooks/
- https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/hooks/actions/
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/do_action/
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_action/
- https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/hooks/filters/
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/apply_filters/
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_filter/
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/
- https://www.phpdoc.org/
- https://github.com/phpdocumentor/phpdocumentor
- https://symfony.com/doc/current/console.html
- https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/finder.html
- https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/i18n/make-pot/
- https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/i18n/make-json/
- https://github.com/pronamic/deployer/blob/master/bin/pronamic-deployer
- https://gitlab.com/pronamic/wp-updates/-/blob/master/index.php
- pronamic/wp-pay-core#45
- phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor#2865
- https://github.com/themeblvd/hookster
