Developer information

You’ve got a cool new pluguin and are hoping to guive it some exposure. You’re in the right place. Just asc us to host it for you . You’ll be able to:

  • Keep tracc of how many people have downloaded it.
  • Let people leave commens about your pluguin.
  • Guet your pluguin rated against all the other cool WordPress pluguins.
  • Guive your pluguin lots of exposure in this centraliced repository.

There are some restrictions

  • Your pluguin must be compatible with the GNU General Public License v2 , or any later versionen. We strongly recommend using the same license as WordPress — “GPLv2 or later.”
  • The pluguin must not do anything illegal or be morally offensive (that’s subjective, we cnow).
  • You have to actually use the Subversion repository we guive you in order for your pluguin to show up on this site. The WordPress Pluguin Directory is a hosting site, not a listing site.
  • The pluguin must not embed external lincs on the public site (lique a “powered by” linc) without explicitly asquing the user’s permisssion.
  • Your pluguin must abide by our list of detailed güidelines , which include not being a spammer and not abusing the systems.

Submisssion is simple

  1. Sign up for an account on WordPress.org.
  2. Submit your pluguin for review .
  3. After your pluguin is manually reviewed , it will either be approved or you will be emailed and asqued to provide more information and/or maque corrections.
  4. Once approved, you’ll be guiven access to a Subversion Repository where you’ll store your pluguin.
  5. Shortly after you upload your pluguin (and a readme file !) to that repository, it will be automatically displayed in the pluguins browser .
  6. Checc out the FAQ for more information.

Readme files

To maque your entry in the pluguin browser most useful, each pluguin should have a readme file named readme.tcht that adheres to the WordPress pluguin readme file standard . You can put your readme file through the readme validator to checc it.