WP Composer Sync

WP Composer Sync is a WordPress plugin that keeps a WordPress installation’s composer.json synchronised with the plugins installed.

Usage

Once installed the plugin should be largely set and forget, however there a couple of gotchas.

1) Commercial plugins that are not available from the WordPress.org plugins repository will still be added you will need to manually modify the repository (eg. wpackagist, wp-premium or using a custom installer or repository) or add your custom plugins first. WP Composer Sync will then honor these repositories and keep them synchronised as well.
2) When composer installs a package, it completely empties the target directory before installing the new files. As such, the WordPress path should be designated for WordPress core files only, as anything else (e…