The 2017 WordPress coding-standards changeset fixed 94.8 percent of identified PHP coding-standard issues.

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"The 2017 WordPress coding-standards changeset fixed 94.8 percent of identified PHP coding-standard issues."

WordPress reported that the changeset addressed 94.8 percent of PHP coding-standard issues, with the remainder requiring manual intervention. This provides a quantified example of automated enforcement succeeding when the expected behavior is expressed in explicit, narrow rules.

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Source title WordPress PHP now (mostly) conforms to WordPress Coding Standards

Source authors Gary Pendergast

Source year 2017

Confidence high

Importance high