Installer path in the composer.json

[thomasnavarro]

Hi !

I see that the installation paths for plugins, mu-plugins and theme go in the vendor folder of the theme. On my side, if I want to use compose to install my theme specific plugins, I have to change the paths :

Your composer.json

"installer-paths": {
  "vendor/{$vendor}/{$name}/": [
    "type:wordpress-muplugin",
    "type:wordpress-plugin",
    "type:wordpress-theme"
  ]
},

My composer.json

"installer-paths": {
  "../../plugins/{$name}": ["type:wordpress-plugin"],
  "../../mu-plugins/{$name}": ["type:wordpress-muplugin"]
}

So I was wondering if there was a particular reason why you defined the paths in the vendor?

[domtra]

Hi @thomasnavarro, honestly, we do not use the themes composer.json to install plugins. We usually have another composer.json in the projects root file, where we specify the correct installer paths. The idea behind the current config was that if you decide to install a plugin inside of the theme, you probably want it to be installed inside of the theme, as well. Currently we will not change this, but might get rid of it completely in the future to avoid confusion.