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Rp Source Wordpress

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WordPress and WooCommerce source adapter: REST capture, auth, pagination, and read contract for codegen. Use when the source platform is WordPress or WooCommerce.
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The rp-source-wordpress skill provides the necessary logic to interface with WordPress and WooCommerce REST APIs. It handles authentication, pagination, and schema capture, serving as a reference for discovery and code generation stages. By encapsulating platform-specific quirks, it allows the broader migration workflow to remain platform-agnostic while ensuring reliable data extraction.

What it does

  • Captures WordPress and WooCommerce schemas and samples data for discovery.
  • Manages authentication via Application Passwords for private data access.
  • Provides logic for reading payment gateway configurations securely.
  • Handles media URL resolution and product image confirmation.
  • Automates plugin inventory detection and coverage reporting.
  • Generates reader code for bulk data extraction.

When to use it

  • When the source platform for a migration is identified as WordPress or WooCommerce.
  • During the discovery phase to sample source data and generate a schema.
  • When generating importers for bulk data extraction from a WordPress-based site.
  • When auditing plugin coverage and payment gateway configurations.

Advantages

  • Ensures platform-specific knowledge is isolated from the main migration workflow.
  • Provides secure handling of sensitive credentials through a dedicated manager.
  • Includes robust logic for resolving complex media and image references.
  • Enforces strict data privacy by preventing the exposure of raw gateway settings.

Usage examples

“Run the discovery process for a WordPress site.”
The agent executes the discovery script to sample the REST index and generate a source profile and schema.
“How do I handle WooCommerce payment gateway data?”
The agent uses the gateway summary utility to report configuration status without exposing sensitive API keys.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/wix/rp-source-wordpress/download
  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip rp-source-wordpress.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Wix

rp-source-wordpress

WordPress / WooCommerce source adapter. Owns every WordPress-specific detail the platform-agnostic skills must not hardcode: how to capture the schema, how to read the data, auth models, pagination, and REST quirks.

When this skill is used

This is not a stage in the migration flow — it is a reference consulted by two stages:

  • rp-discovery consults the Capture section to sample the source and produce the canonical source-profile.md + source-schema.json.

  • rp-import-codegen consults the Read contract section to generate a reader that bulk-extracts WordPress data correctly (auth, pagination, wc/v3 vs wp/v2) into durable project-local files for the later import step.

rp-execute-import never consults this skill — by the time execution runs, the WordPress-specific knowledge is already baked into the generated reader code. Keeping the WordPress knowledge here is what lets the rest of the workflow stay platform-agnostic.

For app routing and internal-link reconciliation, the generated reader also enumerates the captured source roots, declared source hosts, source permalink/alias evidence, and each record's containing source page. It passes those facts to the shared internal-link-audit.js plan input after backend import. Do not infer the containing page from a file basename or assume a default WooCommerce path. The deterministic census records every captured file as scanned, unreadable or unsupported; unsupported documents, dynamic URLs and missing captures remain coverage items. Never scan config/*.env or execute captured source code.

Platform identity

  • Source platform: WordPress (core REST wp/v2), optionally WooCommerce (wc/v3).

  • Detect by hitting <base-url>/wp-json/ — the REST index lists advertised namespaces.

  • Set "platform": "wordpress" (and note WooCommerce presence in sourceMeta) in the emitted source-schema.json. This describes the discovery artifact, not the orchestration decision.

  • Once discovery confirms WooCommerce, record sourcePlatform.value=woocommerce in orchestration/decisions.json and use config/source.woocommerce.env. Otherwise record sourcePlatform.value=wordpress there and use config/source.wordpress.env. Generated importers read that exact nested value — never the decision wrapper object and never the nullable orchestration/run.json sourcePlatform field. The adapter remains rp-source-wordpress in both cases.

Capture (discovery-time)

Sampling the source to learn its shape — not a bulk export.

The Wix domain knowledge base may be used as a classifier supplement during synthesis, but not as a sampling mandate. When a discovered WordPress/WooCommerce route matches a known alias, annotate the emitted entity with sourceMeta.candidateTargetRefs[]; do not turn that hint into a target decision here. Keep frontend, theme, runtime, admin, and transient routes skipped by default even if a knowledge entry exists for a related setup/config target.

After identifying the platform, verify migrations/<project>/config/source.<platform>.env. For a confirmed WooCommerce source, this is source.woocommerce.env; for WordPress without WooCommerce evidence, it is source.wordpress.env. Create the selected file if missing with empty values:

WP_BASE_URL=
WP_USERNAME=
WP_APPLICATION_PASSWORD=
WP_MEDIA_URL_REWRITE_FROM=
WP_MEDIA_URL_REWRITE_TO=
WC_CONSUMER_KEY=
WC_CONSUMER_SECRET=

Before requesting any WordPress / WooCommerce credentials for a URL-based migration, ask the user which data scope they want:

  • public content only

  • also include private/authenticated data

This choice is mandatory and must be explicit. Do not ask for WP_USERNAME, WP_APPLICATION_PASSWORD, or WooCommerce keys until the user chooses also include private/authenticated data. Collect every sensitive value through the secure Secrets Manager flow; do not ask the user to paste it into chat.

One credential covers both private WordPress/WooCommerce REST (wp/v2, wc/v3) and wix-wp-plugin-v2 bridge reads: a WordPress Application Password (WP_USERNAME + WP_APPLICATION_PASSWORD) for an administrator or a WooCommerce shop manager. The bridge (0.5.0+) admits manage_options or manage_woocommerce, so it works with or without WooCommerce; it has no key of its own. A site without WooCommerce running a bridge copy older than 0.5.0 answers 403 to every user; discovery reports bridge_plugin_update_required -- ask the site owner to upload the current zip. An old env file that still has WMH2_MIGRATION_KEY is harmless: the value is ignored.

Key sensitivity is predefined and does not change at runtime. Requiredness is separate and may depend on the selected acquisition mode or source behavior.

KeySensitivityRequiredness
WP_BASE_URLnon-sensitiveRequired for URL-based capture
WP_USERNAMEsensitiveRequired for private/authenticated WordPress capture via Application Password
WP_APPLICATION_PASSWORDsensitiveRequired for private/authenticated WordPress capture via Application Password
WP_MEDIA_URL_REWRITE_FROMnon-sensitiveOptional
WP_MEDIA_URL_REWRITE_TOnon-sensitiveOptional
WC_CONSUMER_KEYsensitiveOptional unless WooCommerce rejects the WordPress Application Password for wc/v3 reads
WC_CONSUMER_SECRETsensitiveOptional unless WooCommerce rejects the WordPress Application Password for wc/v3 reads

Required for a complete WordPress/WooCommerce capture:

  • WP_BASE_URL

  • WP_USERNAME + WP_APPLICATION_PASSWORD when private REST-visible data is in scope

WC_CONSUMER_KEY and WC_CONSUMER_SECRET are optional when WooCommerce accepts the WordPress Application Password for wc/v3 reads; ask for them only if WooCommerce routes return 401/403 with the WordPress Application Password.

WP_MEDIA_URL_REWRITE_FROM and WP_MEDIA_URL_REWRITE_TO are optional. Use them when the WordPress API is reached through a public tunnel but media/file URLs inside records still point at localhost or another private origin. If they are blank, generated readers may rewrite localhost/private origins to WP_BASE_URL when WP_BASE_URL is public.

config/source.<platform>.env is a secret-bearing file once it may contain real values. Do not read it with whole-file commands that print its contents into tool output. Check only whether the file exists and whether each required key is present/blank/missing; when describing status, name keys only and never echo values.

  1. Run the deterministic capture script from this skill's directory (the folder containing this SKILL.md; see CONVENTIONS.md):

    node scripts/wp-discovery.js --env-file <migrations-root>/<project>/config/source.<platform>.env --out-dir <migrations-root>/<project>/data/wp-discovery

    It walks the REST index, runs one OPTIONS + a small GET sample per entity, and writes per-entity markdown (routes, schemas, sample records, record counts, relationships). --env-file is the preferred launch path for project-local credential-bearing config because it avoids shell sourcing of secret-bearing files. Pass direct auth options only when there is no project-local config yet. For long runs, pass --progress-log <path> and poll it per CONVENTIONS.md#progress-log-polling.

  2. If the user chose public content only, run unauthenticated and keep the scope framed as public-only. Do not pivot into asking for credentials unless the user changes scope.

  3. Credentials are required for a complete capture. Without auth, only published public content is reachable; drafts, WooCommerce (wc/v3), user PII, and private fields return 401/403, making their recordCount/inUse unreliable. The script flags this in its README under "Incomplete Capture (Authentication)" — do not treat an unauthenticated run as authoritative.

    Author identity is a specific casualty of public-only capture. Public /wp/v2/users lists only users who authored public posts and exposes no roles and no emails — admin vs editor vs contributor vs subscriber is indistinguishable. Roles/capabilities require context=edit (App Password with list_users) or a DB dump (wp_usermeta → wp_capabilities); WXR exports carry author login/email/display name but no roles either. Vanilla WP has no guest-byline concept (every byline is a user); plugin guest authors (Co-Authors Plus guest-author entities) are separate non-user records. Record author capture mode in the source profile — it determines the blog authorAttributionMode downstream (public-only → fallback/owner attribution; authenticated → per-author mapping: administrators → owner user-member, content roles → per-author members; subscribers/customers → Wix contacts by default — a contact is the no-login CRM person entity and Contacts V5 upserts in bulk — promote to full site members (1/sec serial, re-registration) only when member-gated features are in scope. Every Wix member auto-creates its contact, so member-first ordering: never pre-create a contact for someone who will become a member. Note contacts cannot author blog posts or comments — bylines need members).

  4. Distinguish supported entities (advertised by the REST index) from used entities (those with recordCount > 0). Entities advertised but empty should be flagged, not mapped as if they hold data.

  5. Backend data scope. The capture script classifies REST routes before per-route OPTIONS or sample GET requests. By default it samples backend data routes and skips frontend, theme/editor, runtime session, admin dashboard, diagnostics, marketplace setup, and integration/helper APIs. It writes the skipped-route audit trail to skipped-routes.json.

    It also always writes source-coverage.json (rows: [] when clean): one row per entity whose data request returned 401/403 (auth-gated) or failed with no records (an OPTIONS-probe failure alone is not one), per backend data route skipped by rule, per credential-bearing route never read (not-recoverable), and per unsupported route namespace. Frontend, theme, admin and transient skips get no row. rp-discovery promotes it; never edit it by hand.

    For WooCommerce, prefer canonical durable data APIs such as wc/v3 over duplicated wc/v2/wc/v1 routes for authenticated/private commerce reads. For public content only discovery, probe public Store API catalog routes before declaring commerce deferred: wc/store/v1/products and wc/store/v1/products/categories are in-scope public commerce data when present. Cart and checkout Store API routes remain out of scope as runtime session state.

    Images: never read a field, always resolve. An image reference in a WordPress-family payload is a set of candidate URLs for one picture — the merchant's original upload plus the crops WordPress generated from it. Which field holds the original varies by route, and the two WooCommerce APIs disagree on the same site: on wc/store/v1 images[].src is the original, while on wc/v3 it is resolved through WordPress's registered image sizes and can be the smallest crop, because any theme or image-optimizer plugin may redefine those sizes. Pass the whole reference to resolveImageUrl / resolveImageUrls in lib/wp-image-url.js and use what it returns. It handles src, thumbnail, source_url, srcset, thumbnail_srcset, and media_details.sizes.*, prefers the original, falls back to the widest crop, percent-encodes the result, and retains the attachment id as sourceId for the media-record check below.

    Product pictures require source-record confirmation in generated imports. For the exact orchestration identities woocommerce and wordpress, resolving the product reference is only the first step. Vendor/use the shared root lib/confirmed-pictures.js: collect the selected products' distinct positive sourceId values, call readSourceMediaRecords({ ids, source: { baseUrl, request: authenticatedWpRequest } }), where that wrapper delegates to fetchJson with the run's existing auth headers, then pass each whole resolved gallery to confirmPictures. The read requests authenticated GET /wp/v2/media?include=<ids>&per_page=100 chunks in sorted groups of at most 100; each chunk has one total 60-second transport deadline. The media record's source_url is the evidence. Never infer an original from the filename and never construct a lookalike read or confirmed list: provenance is private to the shared module.

    A picture with no positive attachment id, no returned media record, or a media record in an unreadable chunk is unconfirmed (no-source-id, no-source-record, or source-unreadable). One unconfirmed picture defers the entire product gallery; continue with non-media product fields and follow rp-import-codegen's ledger/recovery contract. Quick mode is unchanged and does not use this boundary.

    Inline post images resolved to media records. When an extractor maps an inline <img> in post content to its wp/v2/media record, look up the wp-image-<id> attachment id first (include=<ids>&per_page=100 chunks). A filename search fallback must read every page (per_page=100 up to X-WP-TotalPages, or until a short page): a common filename stem returns more than one page, and a capped search silently drops the image. Compare the record's source_url with sameImageUrl from lib/wp-image-url.js, never raw string equality: post HTML and source_url can differ only in percent-encoding (non-Latin filenames). An image still unmatched is listed as unresolved in the extract manifest, never dropped.

    ⚠️ This is not optional on the public path just because src happens to be right there today. Same call, everywhere — a contract test pins the Store API no-op, so a change in that behaviour surfaces as a test failure rather than as a merchant's blurry storefront.

    ⚠️ The destination gives one attempt. Wix copies the single URL you send and generates every derivative from it, with no way to raise quality afterwards, so a crop shipped here is that product's permanent ceiling. When resolvedIsCrop() is true the source genuinely had nothing better — report those images in the run's own record rather than shipping them silently.

  6. Plugin coverage runs automatically. Plugin handling is a deterministic pre-pass plus declarative profiles, not prose guesswork — see "Plugin coverage" below. The capture script writes plugin-inventory.json and plugin-coverage.json alongside the per-entity files. Never hand-map a plugin from memory; consult the profiles through scripts/plugin-knowledge.js.

  7. Localhost sources and media URLs. A source at localhost, 127.0.0.1, or another private-only host is valid for discovery and source reads from the user's machine. However, Wix Media import fetches files from the URL using Wix servers, so media URLs like http://localhost:8090/wp-content/uploads/... are not reachable by Wix during a live import. This is optional setup and, as far as we know today, only affects media import:

    • Prefer exposing the local source through a temporary public HTTPS tunnel such as ngrok before live media import.

    • Or explicitly skip/defer media import and continue with non-media entities.

    • If using ngrok on macOS:

      1. Install: brew install ngrok

      2. Add an authtoken from the ngrok dashboard: ngrok config add-authtoken "<YOUR_AUTHTOKEN>"

      3. Expose the local source port, for example: ngrok http 8090

      4. Set the source base URL to the HTTPS forwarding URL: export WP_BASE_URL=https://<id>.ngrok-free.app Record this in source-profile.md when the captured source URL is localhost, and note whether media will use the tunnel or be skipped/deferred.

The raw capture is evidence, not a hand-off artifact. rp-discovery synthesizes it into the canonical artifacts and records traceability pointers (rawDiscovery, per-entity rawFile).

Payment gateways: read the summary, never the route

GET /wc/v3/payment_gateways and /wc/v3/payment_gateways/{id} return each gateway's entire settings object. On a site with a real gateway connected that includes the live API key and secret. Anything a tool returns is in the model's context, the transcript and potentially a durable run artifact, so there is no careful-handling mitigation available after the fact — the value must never be requested.

fetchGatewaySummary() in lib/wp-http.js is the only way to read gateway configuration. It returns, per gateway, id / title / enabled / order and fields: [{ name, state }], where state is present, blank or absent — plus a value for the short allowlist of display and behaviour fields, each of which passes the shared secret-value guard first. That is everything discovery legitimately needs: which gateways are registered, which are enabled, and whether a credential is configured. Request-level outcomes (ok, unauthorized, unreachable, malformed) are a separate axis, and a failed request returns zero field entries rather than a page of absent, so "this gateway has no API key" can never be confused with "we could not ask".

Everything else about the route is closed, on purpose:

  • fetchJson() refuses either gateway route before issuing the request, below discovery's --include-route override. There is no flag, option, capability token or environment variable that lifts it; adding one is the exposure with extra steps.

  • The route classifier categorizes both shapes as excluded_credential_bearing, and neither --include-route nor --include-excluded-category can promote them to sample.

  • A plugin profile may not declare a gateway route as a readable entity route, under any flag.

  • Never write a gateway field value into source-profile.md, source-schema.json, a sample record, a progress log, a completion report, a CMS field, telemetry, or .local.env. Never a prefix, a length or a hash of one either — each of those is a usable clue on its own.

Report what was read. A run that states "N gateways, M enabled, K credential fields present, 0 values retained" is auditable; one that silently read the settings blob is not. describeGatewaySummary() produces that line for the approval gate.

⚠️ The value guard is a pattern list, not a guarantee — a credential in an unrecognized format passes it. It is the backstop for credentials nobody can name in advance; the controls above are the actual protection.

Reading payment, refund and invoice history

Three deterministic registries carry this knowledge. Use them; do not re-derive which source keys mean what, and do not hand-author the reads.

What you needUse
Which source keys the payments import may read at allpaymentReadKeys() in lib/gateway-source-keys.js
Which value may become a payment's provider transaction referenceresolveTransactionReference() in the same module
Whether a method is online or offlineresolveOfflinePayment() — omits the flag when unknown
Whether a refund actually happenedqualifyRefund() in lib/refund-corroboration.js
Whether the store has invoices, and where their bytes livelib/invoice-discovery.js

The read manifest is closed. paymentReadKeys() returns the complete set of keys this import touches — the amount, both paid-date fields, the method, the currency, the canonical reference, and each registry family's candidate fields. Nothing else is read. In particular a raw provider response blob is declared unreadable, not "to be pattern-matched later": on a live store its sibling fields carried customer name, phone and email, and a contract that requires parsing unstructured personal data is not one that can be honoured safely. assertNoNeverReadKeys() refuses a read plan naming it before the plan executes — filtering after the response arrives is too late, the blob is already in the run's working data.

Two surfaces, and neither alone covers payments. Row-shaped tables come through the plugin /query surface; meta-backed fields come through WooCommerce REST. Run the generated …--<table>.eav-read-plan.json verbatim and reconcile it afterwards — a hand-authored scoped read cannot be reconciled against anything, and a plan edited after discovery wrote it is caught by its own hash.

A gateway-shaped key is not attribution. The payment-method slug names the checkout plugin, not necessarily the processor: orders whose method is one gateway can carry another gateway's reference key, while every order whose method was that second gateway carried none. So a candidate is written only when its semantics are verified AND the registry recognizes the order's method — directly, or through a separately verified layered integration. Everything else is reported with a reason and never guessed at by precedence. Report candidate coverage and defensible coverage as separate numbers; collapsing them overstates fidelity.

A refund needs a refund record. A canonical WooCommerce refund entity with a stable id and a positive amount is authoritative on its own. An order-level refunded status corroborates but cannot supply a missing amount. Gateway flags, statuses and refundable-balance fields never create a refund, however many agree — fields written by one callback are one signal. When only such flags and statuses exist, this yields zero importable refunds, which is the correct output.

Invoices are resolved per run. Discovery matches key families, not authored names, and patterns found in a sample are then applied across the full order population. A discovered document URL is untrusted input that something is about to fetch: classify it before touching it, and never log or store it — the query string can be a bearer token and the filename can carry the customer's name. Nothing found means nothing is created, and the report says "no invoices found", never "not supported".

Redaction counts are findings, not plumbing: a non-zero redactedValueCount means a credential was sitting somewhere unexpected in the source, and it belongs in the run report. Telemetry carries counts only — never a discovered key name and never a value.

Plugin coverage

A real WooCommerce site is mostly plugins. Handling them is deterministic and has its own knowledge base: plugins/ (profiles + no-migration-needed.json + README.md), read through scripts/plugin-knowledge.js, detected by scripts/wp-plugin-inventory.js.

Every installed plugin lands in exactly one of the four statuses, and every status produces a row the user sees. Nothing is silently ignored.

PopulationEvidenceResult
recognizeda profile matchednamed entities, declared read channels, Wix target refs; mapping confirmed
derivedno profile, data is REST-visiblederived from wp/v2/types + wp/v2/taxonomies, mapping proposed (CMS, or native on a domain-KB match)
derived (bridge)no profile, the plugin's own tables read under a project-local planone derived:<plugin> row from the canonical plugin.<slug>.<entity> entities, mapping proposed (native on a domain-KB match, with cms/data-item offered beside it)
named onlydetected, no read channelPending with its reason, resolved by the no-migration-needed list or at the review gate

A plugin therefore does not need a profile to migrate — it needs one to migrate natively.

Detection

Runs before route classification so profile-declared routes are already in scope. Signals, strongest first:

  1. GET /wp/v2/plugins — the authoritative installed list (plugin, status, name, version). Administrator credential required. On 401/403 the run continues and records pluginListAvailable: false; say so plainly rather than implying full coverage. Without it, installed-but-unprofiled plugins cannot be enumerated at all — this is the concrete argument for the authenticated acquisition mode.

  2. Declared routes present in the REST index.

  3. GET /wp/v2/types / GET /wp/v2/taxonomies entries matching a profile's restBases.

  4. Record payload keys from the samples — a second pass after sampling. This is not optional polish: several major WooCommerce extensions (Product Bundles, Composite Products, Product Add-Ons, ACF, Yoast) add no REST route at all and only widen wc/v3/products / wc/v3/orders payloads. Route-based discovery cannot see them.

  5. REST namespaces and public /wp-content/plugins/<slug>/ asset paths (low confidence, but they work with no credentials).

A plugin version below a profile's detect.minVersion is reported as api-below-min-version, not read as if the documented API were present.

Project-local plugin entity plans

For an unfamiliar plugin, prefer a complete supported REST reader. If it is unavailable, investigate verified storage and use PLUGIN-READ-PLANS.md's shared validator/writer, including stable entity references, scoped related records and a bounded sample. A permanent profile or new transport handler is not required. Preserve the plan binding in canonical source metadata; only reconciled full extraction certifies readiness. Never return an ineffective “rerun discovery” task when a producer cannot emit its input.

Read channels

plugin-rest, core-cpt, core-embedded, core-meta, plugin-rest-child, export-file, db-only — see plugins/README.md. Two consequences worth stating to the user:

  • Unregistered post meta is invisible to the REST API. WordPress exposes meta only when the plugin registered it with show_in_rest (and, for a CPT, declared custom-fields support). A plugin can keep its entire per-record state in postmeta and expose none of it. Three ways to reach it, in preference order: the structure bridge (see "Reading key/value tables through the bridge" below — this is the one that needs no profile and no user action), a WXR export the user produces, or a database dump.

  • WXR cannot be fetched. Application Passwords authenticate the REST API and XML-RPC only, never wp-admin, so an export file is something the user produces and supplies. Treat export-file as a request to the user, never as a download.

Source redirect maps

Old addresses kept alive only by redirect rules must be inventoried; an empty REST answer or the route classifier's /redirection/* exclusion is never evidence that no rules exist. lib/wp-redirect-sources.js normalizes them from the plugins' own storage:

  • Redirection — redirection_items + redirection_groups tables; Rank Math — rank_math_redirections (PHP-serialized sources, one rule per pattern). Read them through the structure bridge by bare table name; resolveTable matches the site's real prefix from the bridge's table listing and reports several matches (multisite) as ambiguous.

  • Yoast Premium keeps redirects in options, which stays denied: coverage is unsupported until the operator supplies the plugin's CSV export.

  • Server/CDN rules (.htaccess, nginx, edge) live outside WordPress: record them as unsupported and ask the host for an export.

  • Logs, 404 records and hit counts are not rules. Disabled rules and rules of an inactive plugin are kept as enabled: false exclusions, never reactivated.

  • A failed, partial or channel-less read is unreadable, never confirmed_empty.

Capture is automatic. The providers are plugin profiles (an entity with a redirectSource block; see plugins/README.md). When discovery detects one, it reads the declared tables in full through the bridge (paged to completion), normalizes them and appends state/url-preservation/source-redirects.ndjson and writes source-redirect-coverage.json; the plugin-coverage row reports the captured rule count, or an operator action when the read is not complete. Do not probe the tables by hand.

For an operator-supplied export (Yoast Premium, or a failed bridge read), feed it to node skills/wix-replatform/scripts/url-redirects.js sources --project <dir> --input <file.json>; it records the capture the same way. When declared source domains are present, it also plans the captured destinations into the redirect audit and URL rewrite report. If domains are declared later, run url-redirects.js import-targets --project <dir> after that declaration. Capability evidence for a specific rule can be supplied in the source input's targetCapabilities[ruleKey] with productSupported, optional automationSupported, and an evidence reference; absent evidence remains unverified where product support is not established for that rule shape. A complete capture records a disabled tombstone for a previously captured rule that disappeared, so the cutover report keeps its old address open for explicit redirect reconciliation. Partial or unreadable captures never retire missing rules.

Reading key/value tables through the bridge

When wix-wp-plugin-v2 is installed on the source site, postmeta and every other key/value-shaped table is readable — key-scoped. This is the channel to reach for when a capability would otherwise be a user-file blocker, and it is the ONLY one that works for a plugin nobody has profiled.

Always run key discovery, even for a profiled plugin. It is tempting to treat a profile's detect.recordProperties as the key list and skip the round-trip — subscriptions-for-woocommerce.json names _wps_sfw_product there — but those are detection markers, one or two keys that prove the plugin wrote the record. They are not the record's field list. Reading only them produces a short extraction that looks complete, the same failure as a truncated key list.

Profiles earn their place elsewhere: they say which table to read, which entity it maps to, and what the pitfalls are. The key list comes from the site. A single order on a gateway-backed store can carry dozens of gateway-specific meta keys under a prefix no profile anywhere has seen, which is why discovery is the mechanism and not the fallback.

The rule: if you have not named the keys you want, the value column does not exist. Not in select, not in where, not in orderBy, not in groupBy. Violating it returns wmh2_invalid_structure_request (400) — the same error as naming a nonexistent column, so the refusal will not tell you which column is the value column. Two steps:

  1. GET /structure?table=postmeta → the column list plus eavPair: {keyColumn, valueColumn}. This tells you the table is key-scoped before you write a query. No rows, no key names.

  2. Discovery — select the key column plus a count, groupBy the key column. Returns the real key list with row counts, eavAccess.tier: "key-discovery".

  3. Scoped read — where the key column in the keys you want (max 50 per request), then select the value column freely. eavAccess.tier: "key-scoped".

// 2. discovery                                  // 3. scoped read
{"structureRequest": {                           {"structureRequest": {
  "table": "postmeta",                             "table": "postmeta",
  "select": [{"column": "meta_key"},               "select": [{"column": "post_id"},
             {"column": "meta_key",                            {"column": "meta_key"},
              "aggregate": "count", "as": "n"}],              {"column": "meta_value"}],
  "groupBy": ["meta_key"],                         "where": [{"column": "meta_key", "op": "in",
  "orderBy": [{"column": "meta_key",                          "value": ["<key from step 2>",
               "direction": "asc"}]                                     "<key from step 2>"]}],
}}                                               "orderBy": [{"column": "post_id", "direction": "asc"}]
                                                 }}

⚠️ Count the KEY column, not some other column. {"column": "<keyColumn>", "aggregate": "count"} works on any key/value table; counting meta_id only works where that column happens to exist, and a name/value table has no meta_id at all. The generic client counts the discovered key column for exactly this reason.

Things that will bite:

  • Page discovery to exhaustion. limit maxes at 200 and a large postmeta has more distinct keys than one page. Follow pagingMetadata.cursors.next until it is null before concluding a key is absent — a truncated key list reads as "these are all the keys" and will send the mapping down a wrong path. Budget ceil(N/200) discovery pages plus at least ceil(N/50) scoped batches — and a batch is not a request: each pages at 200 rows, so a batch whose 50 keys hold 4,000 rows costs 20 requests. Because discovery returns each key's row count, the read plan states the real figure (expectedPages per batch, expectedScopedRequests overall) — read it there rather than estimating.

  • options and usermeta are still refused outright, and pinning option_name does not unlock options. Gateway configuration held in options is a different mechanism entirely — do not try to route around this.

  • Check redactionMetadata.redactedValueCount on every response. Non-zero means a value matched a credential shape and came back as [REDACTED:secret-shaped]. That is not a bug to work around: it means the source site keeps a credential somewhere unexpected, and it belongs in the run's notes.

  • A table named *meta whose pair is not one of the six recognized ones is refused (403), not readable. There is no key column to pin, so there is nothing to scope. Reach for a WXR export or a database dump for that table, and say so rather than reporting it as empty.

  • A table can carry MORE than one pair, and each is guarded separately: pinning meta_key does not make a second pair's value column readable. eavPair.additionalPairs and eavAccess.additionalPairs list them; guardedValueColumns() in the client returns all of them at once, which is what you want when building a select list.

  • Every value comes back as a STRING — including flags, ids and counts. A column the plugin stores as an integer flag arrives as "0" or "1", and Boolean("0") is true in JavaScript, so the natural-looking if (row.is_spam) classifies every row as spam. A form-submission import that reads a plugin's is_spam column straight into a truthiness test mismarks the entire set, and nothing errors: the run simply reports every row as spam. Compare explicitly (row.is_spam === '1', or Number(row.is_spam) === 1) on every flag, id and numeric column you branch on, and never feed a bridge value to a bare truthiness test. The same holds for text-valued status columns: "active" is a string the plugin chose, not a normalized enum — and note that a source's own spam/status flags being uniformly clean is not evidence the data is clean, only that the source never flagged it.

  • A submissions table shared by every form needs the source form id on BOTH sides. Form plugins that keep one entries table (Forminator's is the shape seen live; see plugins/forminator.json) key each row by the source form id, while the target form ids are minted per form by the forms import. That is two lookups, not one: filter the source rows to the form being imported, and resolve that same form's crosswalked target id. Getting either side wrong writes real submissions onto the wrong target form and the create still succeeds — there is no error to notice. Assert the source-form-id → target-form-id pairing from the crosswalk before the first write, and read one created submission back on the form you expected it to land on.

Yoast product SEO evidence

WooCommerce product yoast_head_json is rendered output, never proof of an override (a store can render a title on every product while holding no raw title override). Decide each product's SEO title, description and focus keyphrase per field with lib/yoast-product-seo-evidence.js:

  1. REST meta on the product post (/wp/v2/product/{id}?context=edit): a key counts only when meta contains it (restEvidence). Missing key means unresolved, not "no override".

  2. Bridge key-scoped postmeta read for keys still unresolved (readBridgeEvidence, with queryPage bound to queryStructure). It pins exactly _yoast_wpseo_title, _yoast_wpseo_metadesc, _yoast_wpseo_focuskw plus a batch of product ids, and pages to hasNext: false. This is the one deliberate exception to "always run key discovery": the key set is a fixed allow-list, never widened, and a complete scoped read with no row is itself the evidence (inherit). A failed, truncated or non-key-scoped batch makes only that batch's unresolved fields unknown.

  3. Otherwise unknown. A user-supplied export can later provide evidence through the blocked-data request flow.

buildProductSeoReceipts returns the audit receipt per product (stored with the extraction, never hashed whole); seoEvidenceFromReceipt gives the canonical product.seoEvidence. Never map yoast_head_json.title/description, og_* or the excerpt into seoTitle/seoDescription. Non-Yoast SEO plugins have no evidence contract: their product SEO is unknown.

  • Parent-scoped sub-resources (plugin-rest-child, fixed 2026-08-11). WooCommerce order notes (/wc/v3/orders/{id}/notes) and similar per-parent sub-collections cannot be listed on their own — the base classifier only samples flat collection routes (page/per_page shape). This is why a plugin that writes real data via $order->add_order_note(...) (e.g. Custom Payment Gateway for WooCommerce's payment-note field) used to report as pending · cannot-tell even though the data is real and REST-reachable in principle. plugin-rest-child fixes this: an entity declares route as a {parentId}-templated path (/wc/v3/orders/{parentId}/notes) plus parentRoute (the already-sampled collection that supplies real parent ids, e.g. /wc/v3/orders). Availability is a two-part presence check against the site's REST index — parentRoute is in scope, and the index advertises a route shaped like the template (WordPress's (?P<id>[\d]+)-style regex segments are normalized to {parentId} for the comparison, so the parameter's name never has to match). Presence alone does not confirm real data exists there: wp-discovery.js's sampleChildEntities runs a live, representative check afterward — it substitutes up to 3 already-sampled parent ids into the template and fetches each, purely to say "N of 3 sampled parents actually returned something," not to claim a full count. That result surfaces as a plain-language run note, never as a channel-status change: a small sample coming back empty does not mean the capability is absent, only that this sample did not confirm it. The infrastructure is built and tested (plugin-knowledge.js, wp-route-classifier.js's childRouteAdvertised, wp-plugin-detect.js's describeProfiledEntity, wp-discovery.js's sampleChildEntities), and plugins/woocommerce-other-payment-gateway.json is authored and live-verified — do not guess a plugin's installed-directory id when authoring a similar profile; confirm detect.pluginFileIds against a live GET /wp/v2/plugins response first, it is exactly the kind of fact a stale or invented guess silently gets wrong.

  • Non-standard response envelope (responseEnvelope, fixed 2026-08-11). Sampling and counting assume a flat array (X-WP-Total/X-WP-TotalPages headers, or the array's own length) or a single object. MailPoet's REST API (/mailpoet/v1/subscribers, /segments, /newsletters, ...) broke that assumption: it is a real, paginated, GET-only REST route (VERIFIED LIVE 2026-08-11: readable with the standard Application Password), but the payload is wrapped as { data: { items: [...], meta: { count, pages } } } with no X-WP-Total header — the count lives inside the body instead. Before this fix the whole envelope would have sampled as one opaque record. A profile entity (route-bearing channels only) now declares responseEnvelope: { itemsPath, countPath } — a dot-path to the array of records, and an optional dot-path to the true total when there's no header. wp-discovery.js's inspectEntity unwraps to that path and otherwise treats it exactly like a flat array; a path that stops resolving (stale profile, plugin version drift) falls back to the raw payload shape and records a discovery note rather than failing the run. plugins/mailpoet.json is authored and live-verified: crm.email-subscription now resolves to migration-planned via the existing crm/email-subscription target, with recordCount read via the declared countPath. A namespace-wide unprofiledRoutes entry is still a sign a route this shape (or any other) has never been profiled — check there before concluding a plugin has "no REST surface."

  • Route default query (ROUTE_DEFAULT_QUERY_RULES, fixed 2026-08-16). Sampling sends per_page and nothing else, so any collection route that applies a default filter to an unparameterized request is read as its filtered subset and the plan under-counts — the hidden records are invisible to the mapper, not merely misreported. Observed on /wc/v3/products/reviews, which defaults to status=approved: a store holding both approved and on-hold reviews had only the approved ones counted. This is a class of bug, so the fix is a table rather than a special case: wp-route-classifier.js carries ROUTE_DEFAULT_QUERY_RULES — [pattern, params, reason], *-suffix matching, longest pattern wins — and defaultQueryFor(routePath) / defaultQueryReasonFor(routePath) resolve it. wp-discovery.js merges the result under its paging parameters and records a discovery note naming the parameters and the reason, so generated readers know to send them too. Adding a route is one row in the table plus a fixture; a route with no row is unchanged.

Coverage statuses

The four statuses, and only the four: migration-planned (via api or cms, confidence confirmed or proposed), no-need-to-migrate, pending, requires-development. A failed or unavailable read is never a status — it attaches to the row as blocked[] (user-file / surface-changed, with a declined flag).

Checked, not guessed. A profile may declare dataPresence checks (product meta values, post counts, shipping-class product counts, enabled shipping methods). Discovery runs them and stores the raw results in plugin-coverage.json dataPresence (reused by --reclassify-coverage). Every check absent → no-need-to-migrate, basis: probe, reason: no-data-found, with the counts as the row's text. An inactive plugin whose data is still there → no-need-to-migrate, reason: inactive-leftover (product decision: leftover data is not moved; same as inactive redirect rules). Any unknown check (no bridge, failed or truncated read) keeps the profile's normal path. Never report "no data" from a read you could not do. Both no-need outcomes also need the profile's dataLocation.where to be wordpress: a plugin that keeps data on a vendor's service (external / both) is never no-need and gets a cutover task "Data lives in <service>" listing the profile's known options, or "options unknown: research needed" (only a task: no blocked[] entry, no question, no stop); unknown or a missing field keeps the normal path.

The split is deliberate: pending (we do not know how to migrate this yet — our open item) and requires-development (a human established Wix has no surface) call for different conversations. Only the second is a closed door, and only a human may open it — the human-signed register plugins/requires-development.json is its single source.

Interaction rules
  • The admin Application Password is the source REST credential, including for wix-wp-plugin-v2. A plugin REST namespace that honours WordPress authentication works with the Application Password, and that is the normal case — plugins with their own key systems offer them as an alternative for external callers, not a requirement (verified for Gravity Forms, which accepts Application Passwords and runs requests under the caller's plugin capabilities). Do not treat "this plugin has API keys" as "we need another credential"; that reasoning has been wrong every time it was applied. If a plugin genuinely rejects the platform credential, that is a config-gate requirement like the WooCommerce consumer keys — not a per-capability runtime state.

  • blocked[] entries are collected and asked once, batched, each individually skippable. A user-file blocker means no WordPress API can reach it: unregistered post meta and plugin tables are invisible to REST, and Application Passwords cannot reach wp-admin, so absent anything else a WXR or CSV export must be produced by the user. Check the structure bridge first — if wix-wp-plugin-v2 is installed on the source site, both of those are readable through it (see "Reading key/value tables through the bridge" below), and asking the user for an export they did not need to produce is a real cost to avoid. Record each answer in orchestration/decisions.json under pluginBlocker:<capability>:<kind> (provided / declined); wp-discovery.js reads it back (--decisions, defaulting to <out-dir>/../../orchestration/decisions.json) so a declined ask renders as declined.

  • pluginCmsFallback:<capability> sits beside it in the same file: the merchant's approve/decline answer to archiving a recognized capability's records in CMS, bound to the exact proposal shown. wp-discovery.js reads it with the eligibility register (plugins/cms-fallback-eligible.json) and classifies the row (pending with a cms-fallback-* reason, or migration-planned · via cms · basis decision with cmsFallback.functionalityRestored: false). It is written only at the mapping review by orchestration-state.js decide-cms-fallback. A malformed entry is never honored and never fails the run; with no row to carry it, it appears in plugin-coverage.json cmsFallbackDecisionIssues[].

  • plugin-coverage.json also carries entityStats (per-route record counts and sample evidence) and inputs.cmsFallbackDigest; --reclassify-coverage rebuilds coverage from them without any source request (see rp-discovery).

  • migration-planned · proposed rows never block; the proposed capability and target are reviewed at the normal mapping-review checkpoint.

  • requires-development and pending rows must reach the user. A detected but undeliverable capability the user was never told about is the failure this machinery exists to prevent. Every pending row is decided at the mapping review — the only exit.

A recognized plugin always ends in Migration planned (J2 property 1). If a profile matched we know what the plugin holds, so:

  • no readable channel (plugin tables only) → still classified by its target, with a user-file blocker on the row — not pending, and never a "cannot" verdict. A database export or a source-side bridge would reach it, and automation may not foreclose that any more than it may declare Wix incapable.

  • pending · cannot-tell is reserved for an unrecognized plugin where we genuinely found nothing; the no-migration-needed list or the agent's own reading can still resolve it to No need to migrate with a recorded rationale.

  • The one deliberate exception is a CMS fallback: when nothing native fits, a recognized capability with a signed cms-fallback-eligible.json entry stays Pending (cms-fallback-* reason) until this migration's merchant approves archiving its records in CMS. A profile never names a cms/* target itself.

A CMS destination is not turnkey. "Kept as data" means the records land in a Wix CMS collection with their original IDs — genuinely migrated, not documented. But Wix Data must be installed first (item writes fail with WDE0110 otherwise) and collection creation has no verified writer yet, so it is a setup step. Say both on the row; a customer reading "Kept as data" should not discover the setup work later.

Guardrails
  • Never a silent native mapping. A derived entity may target a native Wix entity only when the Wix domain knowledge confirms its proposed capability; otherwise it goes to CMS. Either way the row is confidence: proposed and is confirmed at the mapping review.

  • Never a scope reopening. The generic path operates only on routes the route classifier already accepted. It does not resurrect frontend, editor, admin, runtime, or integration families because a plugin registered them.

  • Profile data routes outrank exclusion families (that is the per-capability opt-in), but a wildcard pattern must keep two concrete leading segments, so /yoast/* can never be opted in wholesale.

Commands
node scripts/plugin-knowledge.js list-plugins
node scripts/plugin-knowledge.js read-plugin --slug the-events-calendar
node scripts/plugin-knowledge.js resolve-route --route /tribe/events/v1/events
node scripts/plugin-knowledge.js resolve-property --property bundled_items
node scripts/plugin-knowledge.js list-capabilities
node scripts/wp-plugin-inventory.js --base-url <url> --out-dir <dir> [auth options]
node scripts/plugin-knowledge-validate.js --write-index

To add or correct a plugin, edit plugins/<slug>.json and add a fixture — no skill logic changes. See plugins/README.md.

Product and variation stock

Extract stock_status, manage_stock, stock_quantity, backorders, backorders_allowed, and backordered from products and every variation. Use lib/woo-inventory.js → mapWooInventory(record, {parent}) during canonical mapping. Persist its fields on the canonical variant and its disposition beside the source ID. An untracked product can still be explicitly in stock; manage_stock:false is not missing inventory. Use variation records for variable products; never replicate a parent's shared tracked quantity onto each child. Preserve decision-needed outcomes for missing signals, backorders, invalid quantities, and shared stock; do not turn them into an empty success.

Product bundles

WPC Product Bundles (woosb, meta woosb_ids) and WPC Composite Products (composite, meta wooco_components) store a bundle in product meta. During canonical mapping call lib/bundle-canonical.js → canonicalBundleFromWooProduct(record, { productsForRule }) for every product. When hasBundleFields is true, set canonical product.bundle to its bundle, or keep its unreadableReason; never drop either. Meta left on a product whose type is not woosb / composite returns staleBundleMeta: true: the source sells it as a plain product, so it is not a bundle; list those product ids in one info entry in mapping-gaps.json. Pass productsForRule to resolve a kit group sourced from categories or tags against the extracted catalog. Keep the record's own price unchanged (empty stays empty; never compute one from the parts). CARRIED_META_KEYS lists the meta keys whose field decision is excluded with policyRef: "carried-to-cutover", canonicalField: "product.bundle", carriedBy: "stores/product-bundle". What Wix does with a bundle is the target's rule (rp-target-wix stores/product-bundle), not this adapter's.

Product videos

Product videos live in product meta written by a plugin or the theme, not in images[]. product-video-sources.json lists the meta keys (TheGem thegem_product_video, Product Video Gallery _nickx_video_text_url, ...); add a source there, not in code. After the product extract, run node scripts/product-videos.js plan --project <dir>. It writes execution/product-videos.json: attach[] (video files, attached by the importer, see rp-import-codegen "Product videos") and manual[] (YouTube/Vimeo/other links: the completion report turns them into the product-video-manual Cutover Operator item). Never put a video URL in the product's image list.

Read contract (codegen-time)

What a generated WordPress reader must get right. Capture the operational facts below into source-profile.md during discovery so codegen has them without re-deriving.

The generated reader is an extractor, not an in-memory bulk loader. It should fetch WordPress/WooCommerce records page by page and write them to project-local files (for example per-entity paged JSON files plus a manifest) so the import step can read from disk later without re-fetching the source.

Reuse the shared transport — do not regenerate it. The auth, URL building, rate-limit throttling, and Retry-After-aware 429/503 backoff a reader needs already exist as a dependency-free module at lib/wp-http.js in this skill directory (the same module the capture script imports). It exports fetchJson, buildHeaders, configureRateLimit, and parseTotalHeader. It does not export an undenied transport — fetchJson refuses payment-gateway routes, and a generated reader must not reintroduce a raw one. Any generated WordPress reader must reuse this module rather than reimplementing transport, so the reader contains only per-project orchestration: which entities to pull, the pagination loop, _embed/_links resolution, and transform glue. One tested transport core is what makes the sampler and the reader behave identically. How the module is carried into a runnable migration project is rp-import-codegen's concern (its File targets), not this adapter's. The notes below describe what the reader does on top of that shared core:

  • Bounded media reads: fetchJson accepts optional deadlineMs. One absolute deadline includes the rate-limit wait, every fetch attempt, each attempt timeout, response handling, and every retry delay. A wait that would finish after the deadline is not started. Omit deadlineMs for all existing calls; their behavior stays unchanged.

  • Namespaces & auth differ per namespace:

    • wp/v2 (core): HTTP Basic auth with a WordPress Application Password (--username + --application-password).

    • wc/v3 (WooCommerce): consumer key / secret, sent as Basic auth over HTTPS (or as query params on some hosts). This is a different credential from the Application Password — both may be needed for a full migration.

  • Pagination: ?page=N&per_page=M (max per_page is typically 100). Total pages are in the X-WP-TotalPages response header and total records in X-WP-Total — read those rather than guessing when to stop. Some public WooCommerce Store API collection routes paginate without X-WP-TotalPages; when that header is absent, generated readers must stop on the first page whose item count is smaller than per_page.

  • Embedded relations: request ?_embed to inline related resources, or follow the _links block (author, wp:featuredmedia, wp:term) to resolve relations. The evidence pointers in source-schema.json relations come from this _links block.

  • Hierarchical taxonomies: WordPress categories (and custom hierarchical taxonomies) carry a parent field on each term (0 = top-level). When any term has a non-zero parent, the source taxonomy is nested. Discovery must elevate this into structured schema — set "hierarchical": true on that entity in source-schema.json (see source-schema.example.json → category) rather than leaving parent buried in the raw dump. The Wix Blog category target is flat (no parent/child), so this flag is what triggers the mapper's mandatory lossiness entry; without it, the flatten happens silently.

  • Rate limits / retries: not advertised; the capture script throttles (--rate-limit-rpm, default 120) and backs off on 429/503 honoring Retry-After. Generated readers should inherit the same discipline.

  • Rich content: content.rendered / title.rendered are HTML; *.raw requires context=edit (authenticated). Note which the reader should pull.

  • HTML entities in "plain text" fields (trap, hit live 2026-07-19): WordPress returns HTML-encoded entities (–, &, ’, …) not only in rendered HTML but also in fields consumed as plain text — product/category/tag name, title.rendered after tag-stripping, excerpts, even SKUs. Values sent to plain-text Wix fields (product name, blog title, tag label, CMS text columns) must be entity-decoded by the generated transforms or the encoded form appears verbatim in the Wix dashboard. HTML passed to rich-content conversion does NOT need pre-decoding — the converter handles entities.

  • slug / post_name is percent-encoded for non-Latin values, and REST returns it undecoded (trap, confirmed live on a non-Latin source 2026-09-27): WordPress stores a post/product slug whose original text contains non-Latin characters (e.g. Hebrew) as raw UTF-8 percent-encoded escapes (%d7%90%d7%99...), and both wp/v2 and wc/v3 return this field exactly as stored — no decoding happens server-side. The target's slug coercion (rp-target-wix's toWixSlug) turns the literal % characters into dashes rather than erroring, so passing this value straight through silently produces a garbled hex-with-dashes URL instead of the real slug. Generated transforms must decode slug / post_name with decodeURIComponent before using it as a Wix slug or any other field — guarded in a try/catch, since a slug that was never percent-encoded (or one containing a literal % that isn't part of a valid escape) must pass through unchanged rather than throw or get mangled. The decoded Unicode slug is then kept as-is (the coercion preserves letters and digits in any script), so do not transliterate it. See the codegen-side rule in rp-import-codegen/SKILL.md's "Never hand-write slug sanitizing" section and the domain-knowledge pitfalls on rp-target-wix's stores/entities/product.json and blog/entities/post.json.

  • Custom fields: ACF / meta often appear in sample records but are absent from the OPTIONS schema — surface them as unknowns in discovery so the mapper can decide.

  • WooCommerce variation attribute values are URL-encoded slugs, not display names (trap, hit live 2026-07-21): variations[].attributes[].value from wc/v3/products/{id}/variations is a URL-encoded taxonomy-term slug (e.g. caf%c3%a9 for café), not the human-readable display name that the product's attributes[].options[] array contains. Generated readers must build a per-option slug→displayName map from the parent product's attributes[].options[] (which does carry display names) and resolve slug values to display names before writing to Wix. Passing slugs directly causes MISSING_VARIANT_OPTION_CHOICE because Wix compares variant choice names against option choice names and finds no match.

  • WooCommerce "Any"-style variations omit the attribute entirely, and fail silently (trap, hit live 2026-07-21): wc/v3 returns the per-variation field as attributes[].option, not .value. When a WooCommerce variation is set to "Any" for an option (the variation applies to any value of that option), that attribute is typically omitted from the variation's attributes array entirely rather than present with a null/empty option — but treat a present-and-empty option the same way if seen. Generated transforms that require every declared parent attribute to appear on the variation will resolve an empty option set for it. This does not fail loudly — Wix accepts the write — it surfaces only as a product that goes live with zero purchasable options, found by a human browsing the storefront, not by any automated check. Do not "fix" this by auto-expanding into a cartesian combination of all option choices: live-refuted (the combination count explodes for some products, because the attribute slots are ordinal pick-N-from-a-shared-list pickers, not independent size/color axes). The correct handling is to record the loss for human review rather than emit a default variant silently.

  • The store's own configuration must be read DIRECTLY, and with the WordPress credential (trap, hit live 2026-09-01): /wc/v3/settings/general holds the business address (woocommerce_store_address, _address_2, _city, _postcode, woocommerce_default_country), the currency, which countries the shop sells to, and whether tax is calculated. Two reasons it was never captured on any run:

    1. The REST index advertises only the parameterized form /wc/v3/settings/(?P<group>...), never the literal group route, so nothing in the generic sweep ever fetches it. Read /wc/v3/settings/general directly, the same way a shipping zone's /locations and /methods sub-resources are — a parent-scoped sub-resource the caller resolves itself.

    2. The WooCommerce consumer key gets 401 woocommerce_rest_cannot_view here; the WordPress application password gets 200. Both are already in every run's source config. A reader that only tries the store key gets a plausible "no permission" and moves on — which is exactly how this stayed invisible while migrated sites published with an empty business address.

    woocommerce_default_country is COUNTRY or COUNTRY:STATE (e.g. US:CA) — the same packing a zone's state-type location uses. rp-target-wix/lib/store-config-build.js maps the whole group; do not hand-roll it.

  • Route paths passed to fetchJson / buildApiUrl must NOT include /wp-json (trap, hit live 2026-07-21): buildApiUrl in lib/wp-http.js already prepends /wp-json to the routePath argument. Generated route paths must start with the namespace directly (e.g. /wc/store/v1/products, /wp/v2/posts) — never with /wp-json/.... Prefixing with /wp-json doubles the prefix and produces 404s.

  • WooCommerce consumer key/secret can 401 on some wc/v3 routes even when it reads others fine (trap, hit live 2026-08-12): WC_CONSUMER_KEY/WC_CONSUMER_SECRET are scoped at key-creation time (Read / Write / Read-Write) and can be narrower than the WordPress Application Password's access. The consumer key/secret can 401 woocommerce_rest_cannot_view on wc/v3/taxes, wc/v3/taxes/classes, and wc/v3/settings/tax while the very same reads succeeded immediately with the WP_USERNAME/WP_APPLICATION_PASSWORD Basic auth pair. Generated readers must not treat a 401/403 on one wc/v3 route as proof the whole consumer key is broken (which would wrongly block products/orders/coupons too) — retry that specific route with the Application Password credential before failing, and prefer the Application Password outright for admin-ish wc/v3 routes (taxes, settings) that a narrowly-scoped key is more likely to be denied on.

  • Core WooCommerce settings/tax routes are core, not plugin data: wc/v3/taxes, wc/v3/taxes/classes, and wc/v3/settings/tax are ordinary WooCommerce core collections (same auth/pagination rules as wc/v3/products etc.) — they are not profiled as a "plugin" because tax is core WooCommerce, not an extension. Per-product tax_status/tax_class fields ride along on the ordinary wc/v3/products read; no separate per-product route is needed to get them. See rp-target-wix domains/tax/ for the corresponding Wix target entities (Tax Group / Tax Region / Manual Tax Mapping / Tax Settings) and mapping-plan.json's product and tax-class entities.

Schema shape

source-schema.example.json (in this skill folder) is the template rp-discovery follows when emitting migrations/<project>/source-schema.json. It is a shape to follow, not a strict schema to validate against. Keep the platform-agnostic core stable; push WordPress quirks (restNamespace, statuses, etc.) into each entity's open sourceMeta blob.

For a profiled plugin entity, sourceMeta MUST also carry requestMethod, requestBody, and responseFragmentGroupSize verbatim whenever the plugin profile declares them — copy them from the profile entity (surfaced structurally in plugin detection's per-entity output, wp-plugin-detect.js's describeProfiledEntity) rather than re-deriving them from discovery's prose notes. rp-import-codegen's read contract depends on finding these under exactly those sourceMeta keys; omitting them silently degrades a declared non-GET/fragmented read into an unreadable one downstream.

WooCommerce/WordPress meta_data[] is a keyed list ({id, key, value}). Record it for mapping as one dynamic coverage entry, {path: "meta_data[].value", dynamic: true, selector: {keyPath: "meta_data[].key"}, observedKeys: [...]}, never as a blanket claim. The read-back inventory then counts each key separately (meta_data[key="_yoast_wpseo_title"].value) and lists nested plugin values below it. Keys such as @type, @graph, Hebrew labels or percent-encoded attribute slugs are kept exactly, quoted per lib/source-location.js (yoast_head_json.schema["@graph"][]["@type"]); never strip, rename or decode them.

Coupons, coupon usage and the currency gate

Three source-side decisions, each in a library so a generated importer supplies facts rather than rules. Read lib/coupon-discovery.js and lib/currency-gate.js; both are pure.

  • Coupons are counted from one surface and imported from the same one. wc/v3/coupons (published) is the discovered set and the denominator; sweep it to exhaustion with sweepCoupons(fetchPage), which refuses a total that disagrees with X-WP-Total. The posts count by post_status is a reconciliation check only — summarizeCoupons({ restCoupons, postsByStatus }) reports the non-published rows as deliberately excluded, never as a shortfall (the difference being drafts and auto-drafts).

  • Redeemability, not expiry, classifies a coupon. classifyCoupon — redeemable iff not expired and not usage-exhausted; usage_limit 0 or empty means UNLIMITED. A usage_limit or usage_count that is not an integer ("1.5", "abc") is unresolved: neither redeemable nor exhausted, not written (coupon-usage-limit-unresolved), its own partition line. Import all published coupons; the report carries the breakdown, never "imported N coupons".

  • Mapping reports rather than approximates. mapCouponToWix(coupon, { resolveProduct, resolveCategory }) returns a Wix specification or a named refusal: fgf_free_gift and any unknown discount_type are coupon-type-unmappable, and so is an unrestricted fixed_product (a per-unit amount on every product; Wix's money-off takes it off the order once — a product-scoped one maps); a scope Wix cannot hold in one group is coupon-scope-unmappable. An exhausted single-use code is imported active: false, because Wix's usage count starts at zero. An eligibility constraint Wix cannot hold — excluded products or categories, a sale-item exclusion, a maximum discount amount, an email restriction, or a minimum spend on a product/collection-scoped coupon — is a refusal (coupon-scope-unmappable, reason scope: constraints): dropped, each would make the coupon more generous than the merchant published. Only a dropped amount on a free-shipping coupon stays a per-coupon finding.

  • Coupon plugins' rules are profile data. A coupon plugin (Smart Coupons, …) stores extra rules as coupon meta. Its profile's couponRules[] names each key's meaning, and mapCouponToWix acts on it: start-date sets startTime; same-as-core and no-effect change nothing; restriction / gift / auto-apply write the coupon switched off, tagged Rule_Not_Carried, with result.hold and one coupon-plugin-rule-held cutover task (couponOperatorActions). Coupon meta no profile names is reported once per key (coupon-meta-unrecognized in summarizeCoupons); the coupon still maps. To support a new coupon plugin, add couponRules[] to its profile — never code here.

  • Coupon usage rides on the order. On legacy post storage the surface is the order's REST coupon_lines[] (each carrying discount per code); HPOS stores have wc_order_coupon_lookup. Name whichever was found as coupon-usage-surface. The target side (rp-target-wix/lib/order-applied-discount-build.js) turns the lines into appliedDiscounts through the coupon crosswalk; an unresolved code writes nothing and is reported.

  • Currency halts before any order write. currency-gate.js evaluateCurrencyGate({ settingsCurrency, orderCurrencies, targetSiteCurrency }) — settings from wc/v3/settings/general through store-currency.js, order currencies through resolveOrderCurrency (which decodes ₪ and refuses a contradicting symbol). One currency matching the site proceeds with currency-validated; a mismatch or a history spanning two currencies is a halt, and unresolved orders halt too. Two configured currencies with a single-currency history proceeds, with the configuration reported.

  • Plan-shaped sources are gated by row counts (B1 subscription products, B2 membership CPT, B3 recurring-plan meta), never by plugin detection. Zero rows on all three reports "no pricing plans found". The gate and the plan body live target-side in rp-target-wix/lib/pricing-plan-definition.js.

Currency is a store setting, not an order field

order.currency is documented as an ISO 4217 code. Do not trust it. A store can return currency: "₪" (an HTML-encoded currency SYMBOL) on every order, because a plugin or theme filter has overridden the field. Passed through, the payment existence gate refuses every payment as a currency mismatch; passed through without a gate it labels amounts with a symbol.

lib/store-currency.js resolves it: readStoreCurrency() reads woocommerce_currency from /wc/v3/settings/general (one request per run, and the store's own authoritative setting), and resolveOrderCurrency(order, storeCurrency) trusts the order's own value when it is a plausible ISO code — a multi-currency store legitimately holds several — and falls back to the store setting when it is not. It reports order-currency-not-iso when it falls back, because a store that mangles this field is a store whose other currency-bearing fields are suspect too.

It never infers a code from a symbol. $ is at least a dozen different currencies, and guessing one silently mislabels money.

Site locale facts: source-locale.json

Discovery also writes data/wp-discovery/source-locale.json (promotion copies it to discovery/source-locale.json; a missing or invalid file refuses promotion). It records the store's currency, time zone, language and country through lib/regional-capture.js, which maps the settings JSON onto buildSourceRegional:

Neutral fieldWordPress / WooCommerce sourceRule
paymentCurrencywoocommerce_currency from wc/v3/settings/general (readStoreCurrency; the data/store-settings-general.json capture is reused)never read from an order
timeZonewp/v2/settings timezone (timezone_string)a site on a fixed gmt_offset has no zone: unknown / not-exposed, never an offset
language, localewp/v2/settings language tag plus woocommerce_default_countryhe_IL → language he, locale he-IL; otherwise the country part before the colon supplies the region

Per-order currency counts remain WooCommerce adapter evidence and do not enter the neutral locale record.

A denied read (401/403) is auth-gated, a missing route (404) not-exposed, any other failure unreadable; none of them fails discovery. wp/v2/settings needs an administrator credential, so a run without one records language and time zone as auth-gated. The field names come from the WordPress and WooCommerce REST schemas; the first run against a store confirms them.

Files

plugins/README.md

WordPress Plugin Profiles

Declarative, machine-readable profiles describing how to detect one WordPress / WooCommerce plugin and how to read its durable business data.

Profile files are the source of truth. index.json is generated from them and checked in so runtime lookups stay token-cheap. lib/plugin-knowledge.js is the authority on a profile's shape; the field reference below documents it.

What a profile is, and is not

  • It is detection signals, per-entity read channels, route scope, and pointers to Wix target refs.

  • It is not authoritative about what a route returns. The live OPTIONS + sample GET in scripts/wp-discovery.js always is. A profile is advisory: a stale one can only make detection less complete — it can never cause a wrong read.

  • It does not hold Wix target behavior. That lives in replatform/resources/rp-target-wix/domains/. A profile only points at target refs (candidateTargetRefs) and declares its capabilities.

Recognized or not

A plugin does not need a profile to migrate; it needs one to migrate natively.

PopulationWhat it means
recognizeda profile matched — named entities, channels, and target refs are known; the mapping is confirmed
derivedno profile, but the data is REST-visible; the mapping is proposed (CMS, or native when the domain KB confirms the proposed capability)
derived (bridge)no profile, but the plugin's own tables were read under a project-local plan (PLUGIN-READ-PLANS.md); the mapping is proposed (native on a domain-KB match, with cms/data-item offered beside it)
named onlydetected with no readable channel — lands in Pending or on the no-migration-needed list, reported, never silent

The invariant: every installed plugin lands in exactly one of the four statuses (migration-planned · no-need-to-migrate · pending · requires-development). Authoring a profile is always an upgrade from a working baseline, never the difference between working and broken.

Two states automation may assign, and one only a human may

By default every plugin is either profiled or pending. A capability with no resolved Wix target is pending, not impossible.

StateMeansAssigned by
migration planned / no need to migrateresolved to a Wix target — native or CMS — or nothing to moveautomation
pendingwe do not know how to migrate this yetautomation — the default
requires developmentWix genuinely has no surface for thisa named human, only

Why the restriction. An agent concluded twice that Wix had no target — gift cards and events — and was wrong both times, because Wix splits capabilities across doc trees and a service plugin reads like an absent write API. A wrong impossibility is the most expensive error in this system: it tells a customer to abandon data that could have moved. So automation is capped at pending, and the impossibility verdict needs a name against it.

Recording pending — capabilities-pending-decision.json, optional but useful: reason, the searched evidence, and suspected (target-exists with a plannedTarget to author, or no-target if we think Wix cannot). suspected carries no authority — a no-target suspicion is still pending until signed.

Recording a verdict — requires-development.json requires decidedBy and decidedOn alongside the search. Validation rejects an entry without them, and rejects any entry once a target entity claims that capability, so a verdict cannot outlive its truth.

Recording "nothing to move" for a capability of a profiled plugin — the capabilities[] register in no-migration-needed.json: capability, reason (platform-does-it / not-needed / reconfigure-in-wix), replacedBy, rationale, decidedBy, decidedOn. The slug list below cannot carry this (a slug with a profile is rejected there) and requires-development is the wrong verdict when Wix covers the outcome natively — so this is the third register, and the only way a profiled capability reaches No need to migrate (basis: decision). It is not an impossibility verdict, so no recorded search is required, but it is still signed: unsigned entries fail validation and are ignored at runtime. Mutually exclusive with the other two registers, and rejected once a target entity claims the capability.

Recording "CMS may keep the records" — cms-fallback-eligible.json. A profile never names a cms/* ref in candidateTargetRefs (validation rejects it, and the classifier drops one from a stale profile): a profile-declared CMS ref used to ship as a confirmed CMS plan with no merchant decision. CMS keeps a plugin's records; it does not bring back what the plugin did. So a recognized capability reaches CMS only through two gates:

  1. Eligibility (here, signed). One capabilities[] entry per capability: capability, targetRefsByEntity ("<plugin-slug>/<entity>": ["cms/collection", ...], keys covering exactly the capability's profile entities), reason (why nothing native fits), nativeAlternativesChecked, featureLoss (one merchant-readable sentence of what does not work after archival — shown verbatim at the ask and in reports), decidedBy, decidedOn, optional note. Only a capability whose every declaring profile declares exactly one capability may appear (a multi-capability profile's entity set is ambiguous). Every ref starts with cms/ and resolves. Mutually exclusive with requires-development.json and the no-need capabilities[] register, and rejected once a target entity claims the capability. Unsigned entries fail validation and are ignored at runtime.

  2. Approval (per migration, the merchant). Eligibility alone plans nothing: the row stays Pending (cms-fallback-awaiting-approval) until the merchant approves or declines at the mapping review, recorded as pluginCmsFallback:<capability> in that project's orchestration/decisions.json by orchestration-state.js decide-cms-fallback. Nothing is written back to this register.

Unresolved capabilities are deliberately not a validation error. Blocking there would push authors to invent a verdict just to make the build pass — which is the failure this rule exists to prevent. The coverage report surfaces pending rows and asks a human instead.

Promotion paths into the recognized population

Two triggers, three possible destinations. Adding a plugin is a data change: no classifier, discovery, mapper or codegen edit.

TriggerDestinationCost
Research phase — we investigate a plugin we expect to matterfull profileresearch doc → profile → target entity → area entry
After a run — telemetry flags it unresolved, a human reviews itfull profilesame four
Either, and it turns out to need no data migrationone no-migration-needed.json lineone line
Either, no data to move but the owner must redo it on Wix (analytics, pixels, feeds, banners, popups, sliders, payment provider)one cutover-task-only.json entryone entry

Order matters: author the target entity before the profile that points at it, or record the capability as awaiting a target. Validation enforces this rather than leaving it to memory.

Slug registers for plugins without a profile

One slug has one answer. The validator rejects a slug found in two of these, or in one of these and a profile. Lookups try the folder slug, then the main-file name, so a second copy of a plugin in another folder (wp-rocket2/wp-rocket) gets the same answer and joins the same coverage row.

RegisterRow it producesUse for
no-migration-needed.json hints[]no-need-to-migrate, basis listnothing to move, nothing to redo
cutover-task-only.json tasks[]manual-mapping, basis list, via: manual, manualSteps, cutoverTask { workType, task, doneWhen }no data, but the owner must redo the function on Wix
no-migration-needed.json coreCovered[]migration-planned, basis core-reader, only when the run read one of coreNamespaces (else the plugin stays pending)a plugin whose data the core reader already moves (WooCommerce)
no-migration-needed.json toolkitPlugins[]none; counted in statusInvariant.toolkitExcludedthis skill's own plugins on the source site (wix-wp-plugin-v2)

A cutover task never hides data. It replaces only the "could not identify any data" pending row. If the run attributes readable or unread data to the plugin (a generic entity, a bridge table, an unread namespace route), that row keeps its own status and the task is added beside it.

Cutover task entries need slug, displayName, does, workType (manual-setup, missing-apps, changed-behavior, checks, review), task (the title the Cutover Operator sees), manualSteps (the rp-target-wix runbook shape: prerequisite, steps[{actor, text}] with actors merchant / external / wix-automatable), doneWhen (the evidence that closes it), provenance, decidedBy, decidedOn, optional note. Unsigned entries fail validation and are ignored at runtime. Steps never choose a provider, app or consent setting for the owner.

The task reaches the Cutover Operator through the existing path: census capability row (carrying cutoverTask and manualSteps) → census state manual → discovered-set outcome manual-open → a before-dns Cutover Operator action naming the task, its steps and doneWhen, closed only by discovered-set-status.js resolve with evidence. The production cutover CMS publisher is not yet integrated.

Alias a fingerprint token to its installed folder in fingerprint-aliases.json (for example ctxfeed → webappick-product-feed-for-woocommerce) so the public fingerprint folds into the installed plugin's row instead of adding a second one.

Read channels

channelReads fromNeeds
plugin-restthe plugin's own namespacesometimes plugin-specific credentials
core-cpt/wp/v2/<rest_base>nothing extra
core-embeddedproperties injected into core/Woo recordssometimes context=edit
core-metaregistered meta (show_in_rest)auth for edit-context meta
plugin-rest-childa {parentId}-templated sub-resource on an already-sampled parent (route + parentRoute)nothing extra, but only a representative sample — see SKILL.md
export-filea user-supplied WXR / CSV / JSON exportthe file
db-onlyplugin custom tablessee "Resolving a db-only capability" below
admin-page-onlya wp-admin settings page with no REST route at all (config, not records)human transcription — see below

Resolving a db-only capability -- try this order, do not default straight to a user file:

  1. Check whether the plugin exposes a REST route at all. Confirm live against GET /wp/v2/plugins and the REST index -- do not assume from the plugin's name or marketing copy.

  2. If there is no REST route, check the plugin's own admin UI for a built-in export first. Two db-only guesses on this project turned out to have one (Discount Rules' CSV export, MailPoet's own REST API) and needed no bridge at all -- an existing native export is simpler than authoring a new fulfillment.

  3. Research the plugin's actual storage mechanism before assuming a bridge can reach it: check the plugin's public docs/WordPress.org page, or clone its public GitHub source (many WordPress.org plugins are mirrored) and grep for CREATE TABLE / dbDelta (a real custom table) versus get_option/update_option (wp_options) or add_post_meta/add_user_meta (postmeta/usermeta). This determines which of the next two steps applies -- guessing wrong wastes a whole fulfillment-authoring attempt.

  4. A genuine custom database table is reachable, with zero user effort, via wix-wp-plugin-v2's structure-bridge-plugin fulfillment kind -- try this BEFORE falling back to a user-supplied export. wix-wp-plugin-v2 is this skill bundle's own bridge plugin (unlike the retired Wix Migration Helper below, it ships with this skill and is meant to be installed on every source site this adapter targets). Its /structure route describes any live table's real columns; its /query route reads it with a safe, validated query. A permanent profile is optional: for an unfamiliar plugin prepare an evidence-backed project-local entity plan through the shared producer. Do not edit this bundle during a migration. Reuse a complete supported REST reader first. When maintaining a reusable profile, author its entity's blocked[] as {"kind": "structure-bridge-plugin", "resolution": "<what/why, cite live evidence>", "declined": false, "fulfillment": {"kind": "structure-bridge-plugin", "handlerId": "wix-wp-plugin-v2", "table": "<bare_table_name>"}} -- handlerId/table (and the optional sampleStructureRequest below) live nested under fulfillment, not flattened onto the blocked[] entry itself; resolution and declined are required on every blocked[] entry regardless of kind (see the field reference below). Add sampleStructureRequest when a raw "every column" read would expose something that needs filtering or aggregating -- see pw-woocommerce-gift-cards.json's gift-card-balance aggregate for a full worked example of the complete shape. See lib/wix-wp-plugin-v2-client.js, scripts/wp-discovery.js's sampleStructureBridgeEntities for the full contract.

    Credential. The bridge's routes take the same WordPress Application Password as every other private read, for a user with manage_woocommerce or manage_options (plugin 0.5.0+), so it works with or without WooCommerce. A site without WooCommerce running a plugin copy older than 0.5.0 answers 403 to every user; wp-discovery.js reports that as bridge_plugin_update_required -- ask the site owner to upload the current zip.

  5. Know which tables the bridge can and cannot reach.

    TableReachable?
    wp_options, wp_usermeta, wp_links, multisite globalsNo, never. No unlock path; pinning option_name does not help
    wp_postmeta, wp_commentmeta, wp_termmeta, wc_orders_meta, any *meta table, or any table whose live schema carries a recognized key/value column pairYes -- key-scoped. Key names and counts are freely listable; a value is readable by naming its key (max 50 per request)
    A table NAMED like a meta table whose key/value columns are not one of the six recognized pairsNo. No key column to pin means nothing to scope
    Everything elseYes, in full, minus the named credential columns in COLUMN_DENYLIST

    Row 2 is the one that changed. wp_postmeta is reachable now, via a two-step read (discover key names, then read the keys you want) -- see rp-source-wordpress/SKILL.md's "Reading key/value tables through the bridge" for the request shapes. So Flamingo's message data, which this list previously called permanently unreachable, is reachable: it is wp_postmeta on a flamingo_inbound CPT. Checkout Field Editor's is not: it is a single wp_options row (thwcfe_sections), and row 1 is unchanged.

    Do not declare a user-file blocker or accept a gap for a wp_postmeta-shaped entity without checking this first. Asking a site owner to hand-export data the bridge can read is a real cost, and a profile that hard-codes "unreachable" outlives the reason it was written. When research in step 3 lands on rows 1 or 3, then yes -- stop, and the remaining options are user-file or accepting the gap.

The retired Wix Migration Helper plugin used the same idea -- a site-installed bridge exposing specifically-named read-only REST routes for db-only data -- but was a bespoke, per-capability plugin the site owner had to install separately. wix-wp-plugin-v2 replaces it with one generic bridge covering any table, subject only to the reachability table in step 5; do not author a new profile against the retired bridge-plugin fulfillment kind.

admin-page-only is not the same limitation as db-only. admin-page-only means the configuration itself renders only inside an authenticated wp-admin page (e.g. wp-admin/admin.php?page=<slug>), and WordPress Application Passwords do not authenticate wp-admin page loads at all — only REST API requests. VERIFIED against a live WordPress installation (Discount Rules for WooCommerce's woo_discount_rules settings page): a Basic-Auth request with a valid Application Password 302-redirects to wp-login.php?reauth=1, the standard unauthenticated-session response, identical to what an anonymous request gets. There is no scrapeable path here — WordPress core does not extend Application Password auth to admin page rendering, by design.

Blocked source data and fulfillment

An entity may declare blocked[] only for a concrete, evidenced access gap. Every entry needs a kind (user-file or structure-bridge-plugin), a resolution (what/why, citing live evidence), and a declined boolean (whether the user has already declined this ask at run time -- always false at authoring time). user-file means the owner must supply or transcribe data; it does not imply a machine-readable import path. structure-bridge-plugin means wix-wp-plugin-v2 (this skill bundle's own generic bridge -- see "Resolving a db-only capability" above) can read the table directly; its optional fulfillment names the registered handlerId and the bare table to read (plus an optional sampleStructureRequest -- see the field reference below). A future file handoff uses fulfillment.kind: "csv-upload" with a registered handlerId and expectedInputPath.

wix-wp-plugin-v2 has no manifest or case registry of its own to check a fulfillment's readiness against -- unlike the retired, per-capability Wix Migration Helper bridge, which did (manifestCaseId, expectedNamespace, extractionRoute, productionReady: true -- do not author against that retired shape). Authorization for structure-bridge-plugin is a live core-table denylist plus a live DESCRIBE check at request time, not a build-time readiness flag. Markdown documents are never runtime readiness authorities.

Do not ask the user for their real WordPress account password to work around this — that is a materially more sensitive credential than an Application Password and outside this pipeline's secrets model. The correct escalation is the same one already established for other structurally-invisible config (Checkout Field Editor's custom fields, PW Gift Cards' DB-only balances): surface it as a blocked: [{kind: "user-file"}]-style row at the mapping review gate and ask the site owner to transcribe or screenshot the specific admin page, since they can view it directly with their own login.

core-embedded matters more than it looks: several major WooCommerce extensions add no REST route at all and only widen wc/v3/products / wc/v3/orders payloads. Those plugins are detectable solely from sampled record keys, which is why detection runs a second pass after sampling.

plugin-rest-child is for a sub-resource that needs a known parent id first (e.g. /wc/v3/orders/{parentId}/notes) and so can never be listed as its own flat collection. route carries the literal {parentId} placeholder; parentRoute names the collection route (already in scope and sampled) that supplies real ids. See SKILL.md's "Read channels" section for how presence is checked and why a live per-parent sample is a representative check, not a completeness claim.

Adding a plugin

  1. Read the vendor's REST documentation and record its URL in sourceOfTruth.

  2. Create plugins/<slug>.json following the field reference below. The filename slug must equal plugin.

  3. Declare detection signals. Prefer pluginFileIds and routes (high confidence) over restNamespaces and assetPathSlugs (low confidence — wc/v3 is shared by dozens of plugins).

  4. Declare one entity per durable record type, each with a channel and candidateTargetRefs. An entity with no target refs must carry a pitfall explaining the gap. Never list a cms/* ref: if nothing native fits and CMS should keep the records, a named human adds a signed cms-fallback-eligible.json entry instead.

  5. Put helper, runtime, and configuration routes in excludeRoutes so the plugin's data routes can be opted in without widening scope.

  6. Add a fixture: extend test-fixtures/rest-index-plugins.json and, if relevant, test-fixtures/wp-plugin-signals.json, then assert detection in scripts/wp-plugin-contract-test.js.

  7. Regenerate and validate:

node scripts/plugin-knowledge-validate.js --write-index
node scripts/wp-plugin-contract-test.js
node scripts/wp-discovery-classifier-test.js

Profile field reference

lib/plugin-knowledge.js is the authority on this shape — there is no schema.json, on purpose: a second non-enforcing definition of the same contract only drifts out of sync.

Required: schemaVersion (1) · plugin (must equal the filename slug) · displayName · profileVersion (bump when the plugin's API changes) · sourceOfTruth (vendor docs URL) · capabilities[] · detect · entities[].

detect — at least one signal required:

FieldConfidenceNotes
pluginFileIds[]highplugin values from GET /wp/v2/plugins. Matched on the directory too, because the main-file basename often differs (wordpress-seo/wp-seo).
routes[]highroutes whose presence in the REST index identifies this plugin
restBases[]mediumrest_base from /wp/v2/types or /wp/v2/taxonomies
recordProperties[]mediumkeys this plugin injects into core/Woo payloads; the only way to see route-less extensions
restNamespaces[]lowshared platform namespaces are rejected — wc/v3 identifies WooCommerce, not your plugin
assetPathSlugs[]low/wp-content/plugins/<slug>/, works with no credentials
minVersion—below it, detection reports api-below-min-version rather than assuming the API
addOnPluginFileIds[]—companion plugins (e.g. a PRO add-on) that store their data in this plugin's own tables. Once this profile is detected, an installed add-on is claimed (it is not "pending") and reported as "add-on, covered by" this profile. Never a signal on its own. One profile per add-on; an add-on with its own profile is rejected.

entities[] — each requires entity, channel, candidateTargetRefs[]. capability is optional for backward compatibility, but required on every entity once any entity in that profile uses it; it must name one of the profile's capabilities[]. This attribution prevents a multi-capability profile's entities and target refs from leaking into each other's coverage rows. Then: The FIRST blocker-severity pitfall across a capability's entities is what the merchant reads. classifyCoverage uses it verbatim as the coverage row's userImpact, and buildDispositionRows joins those into the plugin's consequence line. So lead that one with the consequence in plain words and put the internal instruction after it — an authoring note or a cross-reference in first position becomes the customer-facing sentence.

route (route-bearing channels; a {parentId}-templated path for plugin-rest-child) · parentRoute (plugin-rest-child only — the already-sampled collection route parent ids come from) · responseEnvelope (route-bearing channels only — {itemsPath, countPath} for a non-standard wrapped response; see below) · embeddedIn[] + propertyPath (core-embedded) · context (view/edit/both, when the two differ) · requiresParent (sub-collection ordering) · hierarchical · recordKeyField · relations[] · pitfalls[] (code/severity/summary) · blocked[] (an evidenced access gap; kind, resolution, declined, and optional executable fulfillment) · overridesCoreRule.

responseEnvelope — for a plugin whose REST route does not return a flat array (or a single object), and does not advertise X-WP-Total/X-WP-TotalPages headers. itemsPath is the dot-path to the array of records inside the response body (e.g. MailPoet's "data.items"); countPath is the optional dot-path to the true total count when the header is absent (e.g. "data.meta.count" — without it, recordCount reflects only the sampled page, same as a headerless flat array). Sampling and counting otherwise behave exactly as they would for a flat array once unwrapped — this only changes where in the response the sampler looks.

redirectSource — on an entity of a plugin that stores URL redirect rules (capability content.url-redirects). Discovery reads the declared tables completely through the bridge, normalizes them with lib/wp-redirect-sources.js and writes state/url-preservation/source-redirects.ndjson plus source-redirect-coverage.json; no agent step. Fields: provider (stable lowercase id; prefixes every ruleKey, never rename it) · format (redirection, rank-math or csv-export; one normalizer each) · tables (role → bare table name: rules, plus groups for the redirection format) · storedIn: "options" (rules sit where reads are denied; channel export-file, coverage unsupported until the operator supplies the CSV) · optional pluginSlugs[] (extra slugs such as a pro build). A new plugin whose storage matches a known format needs only a profile; a new storage format needs one normalizer. The coverage row stays pending until the Wix side is live-verified, carries the captured rule count, and keeps its read blocker unless every provider's capture is complete.

couponRules[] (optional) — for a plugin that adds rules to WooCommerce coupons as coupon meta. One entry per meta key: metaKey, meaning, optional inertValues[] (values that mean "rule off"; default "", "no", "0", and empty arrays/objects). meaning is closed: start-date (carried as Wix startTime), same-as-core (needs coreField and shape id-map-min-max | id-list; no action when equal to that core field), no-effect, restriction, gift, auto-apply (the last three: Wix cannot hold them, so the coupon is written switched off with a cutover task). A meta key has one owning profile. lib/coupon-discovery.js reads these; a new coupon plugin needs only this data.

dataPresence (optional) — how to check that THIS site holds the plugin's data: { "require": "any" | "all", "checks": [...] }. Check kinds: postMeta {key} (non-empty decoded values, via the bridge), postType {type, statuses?} (bridge posts count), shippingClassProducts {slug} (wc/v3 class count), shippingMethod {methodId} (an enabled zone method instance). require: all when the plugin needs every piece to do anything (Free Shipping Per Product: the class and the method). All absent → no-need (basis: probe, no-data-found); inactive with data → no-need (inactive-leftover); any unknown → the normal path. Both no-need outcomes need dataLocation.where: wordpress. Lib: lib/plugin-data-presence.js.

dataLocation (required with dataPresence, optional otherwise) — where the plugin keeps its data: { "where": "wordpress" | "external" | "both" | "unknown", "service"?, "options"?, "evidence" }. An empty WordPress read says nothing about data on a vendor's service, so:

whereEffect
wordpresspresence checks may rule the capability no-need
external / bothnever no-need; the row keeps its status and gets externalData[] and a cutoverTask (never a blocked[] entry, so no discovery ask and no stop) "Data lives in <service>: <options>", listing options[] (known ways to get the data out of that service) or "options unknown: research needed". service required
unknown, or no fieldnever no-need; the normal path

evidence (vendor docs or plugin source) is required unless where is unknown. The cutoverTask has the cutover-task-only register's shape (workType, task, doneWhen).

Optional top level: distribution · credentials[] (plugin-specific keys) · dataRoutePatterns[] (wholly data-bearing namespaces) · excludeRoutes[] · quirks[]. (dispositionHint is retired — a plugin either has a profile or a no-migration-needed.json entry, never both.)

Rules the validator enforces

  • plugin matches the filename; schemaVersion is 1; profileVersion and sourceOfTruth are present (drift provenance).

  • Every candidateTargetRefs entry resolves in rp-target-wix/domains/index.json, and none is a cms/* ref (CMS goes through cms-fallback-eligible.json plus the merchant's approval).

  • cms-fallback-eligible.json entries are signed, complete, CMS-only, cover exactly the capability's profile entities, belong to single-capability profiles, and are exclusive with the other two signed registers.

  • Every capability is claimed by a Wix target entity's capability field or listed in requires-development.json with a reason.

  • Route-bearing channels declare route; core-embedded declares embeddedIn + propertyPath.

  • A wildcard route pattern keeps at least two concrete leading segments: /ssp/v1/* is allowed, /yoast/* is not. This is what stops a profile from silently reopening an excluded route family.

  • No two profiles claim the same route, and no profile shadows a classifier core rule without "overridesCoreRule": true.

Route precedence

Highest to lowest:

  1. operator --exclude-route

  2. profile excludeRoutes

  3. profile entity routes and dataRoutePatterns

  4. the classifier's own category rules

  5. generic collection-shape acceptance

  6. unsupported by default

Profile data routes outrank exclusion families because an explicitly listed route is the per-capability opt-in — bounded by the wildcard rule above.

Maintenance

  • Keep long analysis separate from the profile; profiles carry compact facts and a sourceOfTruth link.

  • Bump profileVersion when a plugin's API changes.

  • A capability that keeps resolving as proposed across real runs is the signal to write a profile for it.

Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

“Works with” means the tool reads the open Agent Skills format; a skill written for one tool may use features others lack.

Needs: Needs an API key, Needs Node.js

Security

What our scanner noticed· Medium risk

  • Possible data-exfiltration endpoints
  • Scripts that your agent may run

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Attribution and licence

Published by
Wix
Publisher
Wix (Official)
Source
wix/skills · skills/wix-replatform/resources/rp-source-wordpress · commit d168bc2
Licence
MIT License (redistribution allowed)
  • LICENSE (added by AutoGineer from LICENSE)
  • ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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