Submit A Plugin to WordPress.org

A step by step guidelines to submit plugin to WordPress.org

Submit A New Plugin.

Navgiate to the link and upload your plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/add/

Check svn status

svn stat

Add all files to staging

Navigate to the project directory. Run the following command to stage all the files of trunk folder.

svn add trunk/ --force

Commit and Push to WP repository

svn ci -m "Update readme file"

Tagging Version

Before running the following command, we need to add the stable version tag information to the readme.txt file. Tagging code pattern.

svn cp "<trunk_path>" "<trunk_version>" -m "tag message"

Here are a few examples.

BWL Advanced FAQ Lite

svn cp "https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/trunk" \
       "https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bwl-advanced-faq-manager-lite/tags/1.1.1" \
       -m "Tagging version 1.1.1"

BWL Poll Manager Lite

svn cp "https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bwl-poll-manager-lite/trunk" \
       "https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bwl-poll-manager-lite/tags/1.0.8" \
       -m "Tagging version 1.0.8"

Ultimate Searchable Accordion Lite

svn cp "https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ultimate-searchable-accordion-lite-wpbakery-page-builder-addon/trunk" \
       "https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ultimate-searchable-accordion-lite-wpbakery-page-builder-addon/tags/1.0.8" \
       -m "Tagging version 1.0.8"

Update Plugin

• Prepare the files and copy all the files to the trunk folder.

🚨 Do not create any folder inside the trunk folder. Just copy the plugin files directly into the trunk folder. 🚨

• Update the readme.txt file with the new version number and any changes made.
• Commit the changes to the SVN repository.
• Run the following command to commit the changes:

svn add --force trunk/*

• Add the new version tag to the SVN repository.

svn add --force tags/1.1.1

• Commit the changes to the SVN repository with a message indicating the update.

svn commit -m "Updated plugin to 1.1.0"

• If you want to check the status of your SVN repository, you can use the following command:

svn stat

• Update your local SVN repository with the latest changes from the remote repository, you can use the following command:

svn up

More SVN Commands

• If you want to see the status of your SVN repository, you can use the following command:

svn info

• If you want to see the log of your SVN repository, you can use the following command:

svn log

• If you want to delete a file or folder from the SVN repository, you can use the following command:

svn delete <file_or_folder_path>