Add Command

Add installed plugins and themes to composer.json

Note Some commands will generate a composer.json file if one does not currently exist

add

Add all plugins and themes to the composer.json file

wp composer add

Example

Let's say that your site has the themes twentyeleven, and twentysixteeen installed. It also has the plugins bbpress, and buddypress installed.

# Add all installed plugins and themes as dependencies to a composer.json file
wp composer add --file=web/assets

Result

A composer.json file will be generated and saved to web/assets/composer.json with twentysixteen added as a dependency and twentyfourteen added as a dev dependency

{
    "name": "wp-composer-dependencies",
    "description": "Theme and plugin dependencies for the site http://example.com",
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://wpackagist.org"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "wpackagist-theme/twentysixteen": "*",
        "wpackagist-theme/twentyeleven": "*",
        "wpackagist-plugin/bbpress": "*",
        "wpackagist-plugin/buddypress": "*"
    },
    "extra": {
        "installer-paths": {
            "wp-content/themes/{$name}": [
                "type:wordpress-theme"
            ],
            "wp-content/plugins/{$name}": [
                "type:wordpress-plugin"
            ],
            "wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}": [
                "type:wordpress-muplugin"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Options

[--file]

    Path to save the composer.json file

[--latest]

    Always use the latest version from whatever repo the theme is coming from. default.

Note Unlike plugins, themes on wordpress.org don't have specific versions (e.g. v1.0, v2.0, etc...), so the latest version of a theme will always be downloaded

[--installer-paths] OR [--ip]

    Set the WordPress plugins and themes installer path

[--dev]

    Add theme as a dev requirement in composer.json