Automating WordPress Code Reviews Locally with WP Review & Claude Code

Introduction Manual code reviews for WordPress themes and plugins are time-consuming. Checking for naming collisions, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to WordPress Coding Standards is essential—but doing it from scratch for every project quickly becomes a bottleneck. I built WP Review to solve this. It’s a local utility that acts as a first-pass assistant, providing a structured analysis and a Markdown report before you even dive into the source code. The Problem: The "Context Gap" in AI Reviews When using LLMs like Claude for code review, they often lack: local file context awareness of WordPress-specific structures such as themes vs. plugins understanding of WordPress coding standards On top of that, many developers are hesitant to upload entire codebases to cloud tools due to privacy concerns. The Solution: WP Review WP Review is a Python-based CLI tool designed to run locally. It detects the project type, runs a series of security and standards checks, and outputs a score al