woocraft

ABOUT THIS APP

Most guides on building a WooCommerce extension stop at hello world. The moment you need Marketplace-quality code, security-focused linting, PHPStan checked against the WordPress function surface, translations, and a clean production zip, you're wiring all of that together by hand, usually by copying whatever the last extension did and hoping it still works. woocraft is the command line tool that does that wiring for you. Run one command and you get a real extension: PSR-4 PHP with a Composer autoloader, a REST route already registered, an admin screen built with React, Vite and Tailwind, and a plugin header that already has the fields WooCommerce and WordPress.org actually check. Nothing to assemble, nothing to configure before you can start writing your own feature. From there, every command you need lives behind npm run. lint and stan run PHP_CodeSniffer and PHPStan against a ruleset generated straight from your plugin header and composer.json, so there's no phpcs.xml or phpstan.neon to maintain by hand. deploy builds the admin UI, mirrors the compiled plugin into a real local WordPress install (a plain path or a DevKinsta site, picked once and remembered), activates it, and runs wp plugin check against it. build does all of that, then packages an isolated, Marketplace-ready zip: production Composer autoloader, no dev dependencies, no .git, no Vite source, nothing that doesn't belong in a submission, then runs the same QIT tests WooCommerce's own Marketplace review runs, checking first that your extension is actually registered so you never burn a build on a test that can't possibly pass yet. All of it is driven by one file, woocraft.json, committed at your project root. Set your description, PHP, WordPress or WooCommerce requirements, or which PHPStan release to pin, and the next deploy or build writes it into the plugin header, composer.json, package.json and readme.txt for you. Add an entry to a version log and that becomes your official release, your changelog.txt entry, and your readme.txt changelog, all at once, all dated, all left alone once written unless you change them yourself. Get something wrong in the file and woocraft tells you exactly what and how to fix it, instead of failing somewhere confusing three steps later. woocraft is free, open source under the MIT license, and built the same way the extensions it scaffolds are meant to be built: reviewed, documented, and something you can actually read all the way through.