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
• Command Line Usage
  • Examples
• Output Examples
• Alternatives
• Links

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.

Format	Description
default	Symfony console table.
hookster	Hookster JSON.
markdown	Markdown.
phpdocumentor-rst	RestructuredText for phpDocumentor.

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