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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<ruleset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="PHP_CodeSniffer" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="phpcs.xsd">
+    <description>CodeSniffing standards for this project.</description>
+
+    <config name="installed_paths" value="./vendor/wp-coding-standards/wpcs" />
+
+    <file>bootstrap.php</file>
+    <file>nmsp-plugin-name.php</file>
+    <file>uninstall.php</file>
+    <file>constants</file>
+    <file>includes</file>
+
+    <arg name="basepath" value="./" />
+    <arg name="colors" />
+    <arg name="parallel" value="75" />
+    <arg name="report" value="full" />
+    <arg name="extensions" value="php" />
+    <arg value="nps" />
+
+    <!-- Don't hide tokenizer exceptions -->
+    <rule ref="Internal.Tokenizer.Exception">
+        <type>error</type>
+    </rule>
+
+    <!-- Include the whole Wordpress standard -->
+    <rule ref="WordPress-Core">
+        <!-- exclude rules here if needed -->
+    </rule>
+    <rule ref="WordPress-Extra">
+        <!-- exclude rules here if needed -->
+    </rule>
+</ruleset>