Move exceptions for PHP code style rules into specific lines which should be ignored

Author: patrickrobrecht

phpcs.xml

@@ -20,24 +20,12 @@
 
     <!-- WordPress coding standards -->
     <config name="minimum_supported_wp_version" value="4.7" />
-    <rule ref="WordPress">
-    </rule>
-    <rule ref="WordPress.VIP.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching">
-        <exclude-pattern>comments.php</exclude-pattern>
-        <exclude-pattern>posts.php</exclude-pattern>
-        <exclude-pattern>users.php</exclude-pattern>
-    </rule>
+    <rule ref="WordPress" />
     <rule ref="WordPress.WP.I18n">
         <properties>
             <property name="text_domain" type="array" value="posts-and-users-stats" />
         </properties>
     </rule>
-    <rule ref="WordPress.WP.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared">
-        <exclude-pattern>posts.php</exclude-pattern>
-    </rule>
-    <rule ref="WordPress.VIP.RestrictedFunctions.count_user_posts_count_user_posts">
-        <exclude-pattern>posts.php</exclude-pattern>
-    </rule>
 
     <!-- Include sniffs for PHP cross-version compatibility. -->
     <config name="testVersion" value="5.6-"/>

views/comments.php

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ class="<?php posts_and_users_stats_echo_tab_class( $selected_tab == $tab_slug );
 <?php
 if ( 'date' == $selected_tab ) {
 	global $wpdb;
+	// phpcs:disable WordPress.VIP.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
 	$comments_per_date = $wpdb->get_results(
 		"SELECT DATE(comment_date) as date, count(comment_ID) as count
             FROM {$wpdb->comments}
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ class="<?php posts_and_users_stats_echo_tab_class( $selected_tab == $tab_slug );
             GROUP BY year",
 		OBJECT_K
 	);
+	// phpcs:enable WordPress.VIP.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
 
 	$per_date_string = __( 'Comments per Date', 'posts-and-users-stats' );
 	$per_month_string = __( 'Comments per Month', 'posts-and-users-stats' );
@@ -216,6 +218,7 @@ class="<?php posts_and_users_stats_echo_tab_class( $selected_tab == $tab_slug );
 } // end if
 } else if ( 'author' == $selected_tab ) {
 	global $wpdb;
+	// phpcs:ignore WordPress.VIP.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
 	$comments_per_author = $wpdb->get_results(
 		"SELECT comment_author as author, count(comment_ID) as count
             FROM {$wpdb->comments}

views/posts.php

@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ class="<?php posts_and_users_stats_echo_tab_class( $selected_tab == $tab_slug );
 	}
 
 	global $wpdb;
+	// phpcs:disable WordPress.WP.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
+    // phpcs:disable WordPress.VIP.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
 	$posts_per_date = $wpdb->get_results(
 		"SELECT DATE(post_date) as date, count(ID) as count
             FROM {$wpdb->posts}
@@ -92,6 +94,8 @@ class="<?php posts_and_users_stats_echo_tab_class( $selected_tab == $tab_slug );
             ORDER BY year DESC',
 		OBJECT_K
 	);
+	// phpcs:enable WordPress.WP.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
+    // phpcs:enable WordPress.VIP.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
 
 	$per_date_string = sprintf(
 		// translators: post type.
@@ -404,7 +408,10 @@ class="<?php posts_and_users_stats_echo_tab_class( $selected_tab == $tab_slug );
 		);
 		$total = 0;
 		foreach ( $post_types as $post_type ) {
-			$count = intval( count_user_posts( $user->ID, $post_type, true ) );
+			$count = intval(
+				// phpcs:ignore WordPress.VIP.RestrictedFunctions.count_user_posts_count_user_posts
+				count_user_posts( $user->ID, $post_type, true )
+			);
 			$user_data[ $post_type ] = $count;
 			$total += $count;
 		}

views/users.php

@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ class="<?php posts_and_users_stats_echo_tab_class( $selected_tab == $tab_slug );
 		<?php
 	} else if ( 'date' == $selected_tab ) {
 		global $wpdb;
+		// phpcs:ignore WordPress.VIP.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
 		$user_registration_dates = $wpdb->get_results(
 			'SELECT DATE(user_registered) AS date, count(*) as count
 				FROM ' . $wpdb->prefix . 'users