diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index be31c62..db020a0 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
         "build": "./_tools/build.sh",
         "lint": "composer run lint:php; npm run lint",
         "lint:fix": "composer run lint:php:fix; npm run lint:fix",
-        "lint:php": "./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=WordPress,PHPCompatibilityWP --runtime-set testVersion 7.4- --colors --encoding=utf-8 -p --ignore=index.php ./src/*.php ./src/*/*.php ./src/*/*/*.php",
-        "lint:php:fix": "./vendor/bin/phpcbf --standard=WordPress,PHPCompatibilityWP --runtime-set testVersion 7.4- --colors --encoding=utf-8 -p --ignore=index.php ./src/*.php ./src/*/*.php ./src/*/*/*.php", 
+        "lint:php": "./vendor/bin/phpcs",
+        "lint:php:fix": "./vendor/bin/phpcbf", 
         "lint:css": "npm run lint:css",
         "lint:css:fix": "npm run lint:css:fix",
         "lint:js": "npm run lint:js",
diff --git a/phpcs.xml.dist b/phpcs.xml.dist
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee5a1f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpcs.xml.dist
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<ruleset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="PHP_CodeSniffer" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="phpcs.xsd">
+    <description>The coding standard for PHP_CodeSniffer itself.</description>
+
+    <file>src</file>
+		
+		<exclude-pattern>index.php</exclude-pattern>
+
+		<arg name="extensions" value="php"/>
+ 		<arg name="encoding" value="utf-8"/>
+    <arg name="colors"/>
+    <arg name="parallel" value="75"/>
+    <arg value="sp"/>
+    
+    <config name="testVersion" value="8.0"/>
+    
+ 		<rule ref="WordPress"/>
+ 		<rule ref="PHPCompatibilityWP"/>
+ 		
+ 		<!-- `WordPress` is incompatible with PHP 8.0 -->
+ 		<rule ref="WordPress">
+ 			<exclude name="Squiz.PHP.CommentedOutCode.Found"/>
+			<exclude name="Squiz.Commenting.FunctionComment.MissingParamTag"/>
+			<exclude name="Squiz.Commenting.VariableComment.Missing"/>
+			<exclude name="Squiz.Commenting.VariableComment.MissingVar"/>
+			<exclude name="Generic.PHP.Syntax.PHPSyntax"/>
+		</rule>
+
+</ruleset>
+