Did you know that a plugin hosted on the WordPress.org Plugin Directory can use a readme.md markdown file instead of readme.txt? If you manage your plugin on GitHub or GitLab and use a readme.md file there’s no need to maintain or generate a separate readme.txt file — just send the readme.md file straight to wordpress.org.
Tag archives: Plugin
Brief Thoughts on a Ten Year Old WordPress Plugin
Today my User Switching plugin for WordPress turns ten years old. Its active user base passed 100,000 last year which I think classifies it as moderately popular. For a plugin that’s primarily developer-oriented that’s a good number.
WordPress Plugin: Pocket Read It Later Links
Latest version: – Released : Description
WordPress Plugin: Pretty Media
Update: This functionality now exists in WordPress itself. There’s no longer any need for this plugin. I’ve just published a small plugin which makes the Media screen in WordPress prettier using just CSS. You can download/pull/fork it on GitHub.
WordPress Plugin: Feed Thumbnails
Latest version: – Released Description Installation Download This plugin requires WordPress version or later. Version ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!
WordPress Plugin: Disable Theme Updates
Latest version: – Released All the information for this plugin can be found over at the WordPress Plugin Directory: Disable WordPress Theme Updates. Don’t forget you can also disable WordPress core updates and disable WordPress plugin updates too.
WordPress Plugin: Logout Password Protected Posts
Latest version: – Released Description Installation FAQ Download Version ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!
WordPress Plugin: User Switching
Latest version: – Released : Description FAQ Download This plugin requires WordPress version or later. Download the plugin on WordPress.org. Any comments, questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, etc, please leave a comment!
WordPress Plugin: Instapaper ‘Read Later’ Links
Latest version: – Released : Description This plugin allows you to display Instapaper ‘Read later’ links next to each post on your blog just like on Give Me Something To Read. You can either automatically insert the links adjacent to your blog entries, or you can just use the template tag to insert the links …
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WordPress Plugin: Plugin Info
Latest version: – Released Description This plugin provides a simple way of displaying up-to-date information about specific plugins hosted on the WordPress Plugin Directory in your blog posts and pages. It is intended for plugin authors who want to display details of their own plugins from the WP Plugin Directory on their blog and want …