---
name: wordpress-agent-skills
slug: wordpress-agent-skills
score: 67
rubric: 1.0
provenance: verified-org
publisher: WordPress
license: GPL-2.0-or-later
capability: read-write
canonical: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/wordpress-agent-skills
---

# wordpress-agent-skills

WordPress’s own answer to agents writing pre-Gutenberg code: blocks, block themes, plugins, the modern APIs.

## Install

### Claude Code

```bash
npx skills add WordPress/agent-skills --skill wp-plugin-development --yes
```

### Cursor

```bash
npx skills add WordPress/agent-skills --skill wp-plugin-development --yes --target cursor
```

### Codex CLI

```bash
npx skills add WordPress/agent-skills --skill wp-plugin-development --yes
```

## Best for

Stopping an agent generating outdated WordPress patterns — pre-block themes, missing block deprecations that cause "Invalid block" errors, plugin code that skips the security conventions.

## Not ideal for

Running or hosting a WordPress site. These teach how to build for WordPress; updates, backups and hosting are a host’s skill, not this set.

## About

The WordPress project’s own 18-skill set for building WordPress correctly: Gutenberg blocks with block.json and deprecations, block themes with theme.json and style variations, plugin architecture and the settings API, the REST and Interactivity and Abilities APIs, WP-CLI and multisite ops, performance profiling, PHPStan config, Playground blueprints and wp-env. Use when writing or reviewing a WordPress plugin, block or theme.

## Compatibility

claude-code, codex, cursor

## Metadata

- Categories: frontend-design, code-quality-review
- Surfaces: claude-code
- Tags: WordPress, Gutenberg, Themes
- Setup time: 2 min
- Complexity: Low
- Last update: 2026-09-29
- Verified: 2026-09-30
- Source: https://github.com/WordPress/agent-skills
- Docs: https://make.wordpress.org/ai/handbook/ai-guidelines/

---

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