Free WordPress code generators, without the boilerplate
WP Skills turns the repetitive parts of WordPress theme and plugin development into a form you fill in. 44 generators, free, no account needed.
What WP Skills is
Every WordPress developer writes the same code repeatedly. Registering a custom post type, enqueuing a stylesheet, declaring a shortcode, wiring up a meta box — each is a well-documented pattern with a handful of arguments that change, wrapped in scaffolding that never does. Typing that scaffolding from memory is slow, and typing it from a half-remembered example is how typos reach production.
WP Skills is a set of 44 generators for exactly those patterns. You fill in the parts that differ, and you get correct, readable PHP you can paste into a theme, a child theme or a plugin.
How the generators work
Pick a generator, fill in the fields, and the PHP updates as you type — there is no build step and nothing to submit. When it looks right, copy it.
All of this happens in your browser. The generators are code that has already been downloaded to your device, so what you type never reaches our servers, and you never need an account to use one. Signing in adds exactly one thing: the ability to save a snippet and reopen it later with its fields still filled in.
What you can generate
The catalogue covers the plumbing of theme and plugin development. Among the most used:
- Custom post types and taxonomies, with their labels, supports and rewrite rules filled in.
- Shortcodes and hooks, wired to the right action with the right argument count.
- Scripts and styles, enqueued the way WordPress expects rather than hardcoded into a template.
- Meta boxes, settings pages and dashboard widgets for the admin side.
- Child themes, starter plugins and wp-config.php when you are starting something from nothing.
- WP_Query loops and tax queries, which are the two places a small mistake is hardest to spot.
The full list is on the generators page.
Who it is for
If you are new to WordPress development, a generator is a worked example you can read: it shows which function to call, which arguments matter and which hook it belongs on. If you have been doing this for years, it is faster than finding the last project where you wrote the same thing.
Either way the output is ordinary WordPress code, not a framework. There is nothing to install, no dependency to add, and nothing that stops working if this site does.
What it costs
Nothing. Every generator is free, with no usage limit and no account required, and the code you generate is yours — use it in client work, in commercial products, anywhere, with no attribution.
Who builds it
WP Skills is built and maintained by Oğuzhan Yılmaz. New generators are added when a pattern turns out to be worth automating; you can see what has changed in the changelog.
Missing a generator you need, or found one that produces something wrong? Tell us through the contact page or at mail@wp-skills.com. Requests are how most of the catalogue got decided.