diff --git a/phpcs.xml.dist b/phpcs.xml.dist
index 5f98c99..acd9993 100644
--- a/phpcs.xml.dist
+++ b/phpcs.xml.dist
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@
 
 		<!-- WordPress have translators comment which requires no space after `//` -->
 		<exclude name="Squiz.Commenting.InlineComment.NoSpaceBefore" />
+
+		<!-- Exclude short array syntax as it is consistently already in the codebase :) -->
+		<exclude name="Generic.Arrays.DisallowShortArraySyntax"/>
 	</rule>
 
 	<rule ref="WordPress-Extra">