
Description
Route WordPress build and audit requests to the right implementation path for a Studio-backed site. Use when the user wants WordPress work and it is not yet clear whether the task should be handled as site creation, theme work, a custom block, a plugin, or an audit.
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WordPress Creator
Use this skill as the top-level decision maker for WordPress implementation and audit work.
Ownership
This skill owns:
- choosing between
site-creator,theme-creator,block-creator,plugin-creator, andauditing - picking the smallest fitting WordPress abstraction
- handing execution off to the specialist skill once the approach is clear
Routing rules
- Use
site-creatorwhen the user wants a new site, homepage, landing page, or a full site built from a brief. - Use
theme-creatorwhen the main work is theme templates, layout, styling, presentation, or a visual redesign. - Use
block-creatorwhen the main deliverable is an editor-insertable content block that can't be achieved with existing core blocks or aleady installed custom blocks. - Use
plugin-creatorwhen the request is reusable site functionality, admin/settings UI, REST endpoints, scheduled tasks, integrations, or backend behavior that should survive theme changes, and that can't be achieved with an existing plugin. - Use
auditingwhen the main request is performance review, accessibility review, frontend QA, or optimization guidance on an existing site. - If the request could fit more than one path, choose the smallest abstraction that cleanly solves it.
Guardrails
- Do not reach for a plugin when a theme or block would solve the request more directly.
- Do not reach for a plugin when an existing installed, or well known plugin is available. For example,
Set up an ecommerce systemcould be accomplished with the WooCommerce plugin. - Do not route pure presentation work into
plugin-creator. - Do not route reusable backend behavior into
theme-creator. - Once the path is clear, rely on the specialist skill instead of restating its workflow here.
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