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AlternativeFunctions: suggest using wp_(un)slash()

Component: Extra

Status: Needs investigation

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open (in progress).

WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standardsnumber 1466

#1466 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· jrfnl opened on Aug 27, 2018

Prepared SQL sniff: support array_map()

Focus: DB

Focus: Security

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#1046 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· Chouby opened on Jul 22, 2017

Use a PHPCS bootstrap file to auto-detect text-domain and minimum supported wp version

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#995 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· jrfnl opened on Jun 23, 2017

Detect failures to use esc_attr() for printing in HTML attributes

Component: Core

Focus: Security

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#527 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· westonruter opened on Feb 8, 2016

filter_input() doesn't mean variable is sanitized

Focus: Security

Type: Enhancement

Upstream: PHPCSExtra

Status: Open.

#512 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· allan23 opened on Jan 19, 2016

Add some admin bar methods to the printing functions

Focus: Security

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#473 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· johnbillion opened on Oct 7, 2015

Check that hooks follow documentation standards

Component: Docs

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#424 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· JDGrimes opened on Aug 21, 2015

Test documentation standards

Component: Docs

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#241 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· ScreamingDev opened on Sep 20, 2014

Enforce wp_slash() on functions that expect slashed data

Component: Extra

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#172 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· westonruter opened on May 20, 2014

Warn if register_setting() lacks 3rd sanitize parameter

Component: Extra

Focus: Security

Status: Awaiting feedback

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#126 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· westonruter opened on Nov 14, 2013

"Hidden" standard with helper tools for WPCS maintainers

Meta: Repo

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#1803 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· jrfnl opened on Sep 23, 2019

Feature request: sniff to check that deprecation is properly handled

Component: Core

Focus: WP interoperabilityDoing things the WP way, prefer using WP functionality over userland/PHP nativeDoing things the WP way, prefer using WP functionality over userland/PHP native

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#993 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· jrfnl opened on Jun 21, 2017

WIP: Sniff to check that slashed data is passed to functions that expect it

Status: Needs investigation

Type: Enhancement

Status: Draft (not ready).

WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standardsnumber 1222

#1222 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· JDGrimes opened on Nov 3, 2017

Add verification checks against $_SERVER header/env reads.

Status: Awaiting feedback

Status: Needs investigation

Status: Open.

#2217 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· sybrew opened on Mar 29, 2023

Extra: add sniff to discourage the use of "long" closures

Component: Extra

Focus: Code analysisSniffs to prevent common mistakes and improve code in generalSniffs to prevent common mistakes and improve code in general

Status: Review ready

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open (in progress).

WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standardsnumber 2311

#2311 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· jrfnl opened on Jul 20, 2023

Sniff to check that test class names and test file names comply with PHPUnit naming conventions

Type: Enhancement

Status: Open.

#2484 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· jrfnl opened on Sep 7, 2024

WP/AlternativeFunctions: fails to detect namespaced and class-based function/constant calls

Component: Extra

Status: Requirement not metOn hold until WPCS supports a particular version of a dependency (PHP, PHP_CodeSniffer, etc.).On hold until WPCS supports a particular version of a dependency (PHP, PHP_CodeSniffer, etc.).

Type: Bug

Status: Open.

#2603 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· rodrigoprimo opened on Sep 9, 2025

Add note to README explaining that WordPress includes sniffs beyond the subsets.

Type: Documentation

Status: Open (in progress).

WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standardsnumber 2661

#2661 In WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards;

· leewillis77 opened on Nov 26, 2025