I have plugin that has the same name as other plugin uploaded to wordpress.org How can i make it unique so it doesn't share "View Detais" link and auto-update with other plugin uploaded to wordpress.org? Considering that name of my plugin has to be exactly name it already has and cannot be changed. I've already tried adding this code to myplugin.php: add_filter( 'site_transient_update_plugins', 'filter_plugin_updates' ); function filter_plugin_updates( $value ) { if (!empty($value)) { unset( $value->response['myplugin/myplugin.php'] ); return $value; } } …

While I tried registering on wordpress.org, I did not receive any confirmation email from the website. When I tried again, it told me that: That email address already has an account. The registration is still pending, please check your email for the confirmation link. Resend confirmation email. To double check, I checked the spam box as well. I've tried different emails again and again without success. I would appreciate any help you can provide. For details, see the image below:

I'd like to retrieve a list of popular plugins from WordPress.org using their API. I know I can do something like this to get a specific plugin: http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/name_of_plugin And that I can get back a list of plugins using something like this: http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/?action=query_plugins But I don't know how to get the popular plugins. I'm guessing it is something like: http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/?action=query_plugins&browse=popular I'd like to do this without using WordPress' (the software) Plugin API. This should be something I could type into …

In readme * Text Domain: advanced-responsive-video-embedder Do I lose translations when I change my language domain for my plugin on wp.org? I am annoyed by advanced-responsive-video-embedder string and like to move to arve but I fear this will remove the already done translations.

Even moderators on wordpress.org can't reopen tickets: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-i-open-a-closed-for-reply-topic-as-a-moderator/ This is weird and stupid. The question for SE is: Has Automattic expressed the reason WHY they do this? Can you provide a link to trac or a blog post where they explain themselves?

Let's say you have a cleaner library. Is it okay to limit the free version that is hosted on the WordPress-repo to max clean 10.000 entries; after that you would have to pay for the pro version?

I'm looking for a way to get the list of all plugins listed in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. There is one other post I've found on StackOverflow regarding this which recommends using the subversion repository. I'd like to do something that organizes them by number of downloads. I think this is probably possible using the WordPress.org API, but I'm not positive. My attempts thus far have failed. Any ideas?

I'm trying to find some specific plugin for Accordion (FAQ), but to be in a form of Gutenberg Block. There is a group of "block enabled" plugins on https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/blocks/ There should be a simple way of achieving this task. I've done a lot of experimenting, but none of the results were satisfactory enough. Using specialized sites https://wpdirectory.net/; Tried searching for (?mi)(^\s*Plugin\s+Name:.+accordion.+$) to achieve case-insensitive search for accordion in plugin name. But I can't search also for "blocks" plugins as there …

I am a WordPress plugin developer, I SVNed the latest plugin then the translation page goes like below: How can I prevent the "Development" version to appare? I just want a stable version here. In newest README.txt: === Corona Virus Data === Contributors: freeduke Donate link: https://www.dukeyin.com/donate/ Tags: ncov19, coronavirus, covid-19, Corona virus, Requires at least: 3.0.1 Tested up to: 5.4 Stable tag: 1.2.2 Requires PHP: 7.2 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html and the plugin file I worte: …

I tried to find the solution on WordPress.org, but to me as a new contributer, the documentation seems confusing, and links like "Become an editor." in the "Translation Editors" on a plugin's translations tab, just sends me around in circles to pages I already visited. How to achieve the simple task of becoming a translator and be able and allowed to translate a WordPress plugin that I committed myself?

I tried to commit the changes to the “Filenames to latin” plugin and got the SVN error. The error message: Error: Commit failed (details follow): Error: Commit blocked by pre-commit hook (exit code 1) with output: Error: [Error output could not be translated from the native locale to UTF-8.] Error: This error was generated by a custom hook script on the Subversion server. Error: Please contact your server administrator for help with resolving this issue. The latest code for the …

WordPress 5.2 just released before few days. Here is the system requirements, but I'm not understanding it's require PHP 7.3 compulsory or just recommendation. https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ Please help me.

I've made a plugin which I will give to some users to test by manually uploading the zip file. I later on want to host the plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory, but I want to avoid users having to uninstall my plugin to install the directory-hosted one because I have code in my uninstaller that deletes all of the terms, etc. that my plugin adds. Is there a way to make WordPress track a plugin in the official directory …

On a computer with Windows 7 there is a blocking all websites except those are specified in the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts which serves as "DNS" like 123.456.789.123 example.com and DNS in network adapter settings are switched to 127.0.0.1 As I see in wp-admin/includes/theme.php, free available WP themes in admin panel on pages "Themes > Add new" and "Customize > Change > WordPress.org themes" are loaded from the url api.wordpress.org. But this url is not mentioned in the hosts file. So how …

I want to launch a blog site where I will publish my articles on motorcycle safety as a book. I want exactly the same table of contents menu at wordpress.org Theme Handbook pages. I'm not sure if it comes with a theme or a plugin but I wanted to ask if it is possible to download and use it? Since Wordpress is open source, I thought it might be possible.

I have a plugin distributed on WordPress.org that is fairly popular. I have to drop support for PHP 5.2and I'd like to at least drop support for PHP 5.2, but if I could make the minimum PHP 5.4, late static bindings and useful closures, would be great. Before you say PHP7, keep in mind that plugin only has 100,000+ sites running it. For all WordPress sites, 10% fo sites are on PHP 5.3 or below. I am not risking breaking …

I have been maintaining this plugin since quite some time... https://wordpress.org/plugins/pootle-page-builder/ But on releasing v5.1.0 update is not showing even after about 20 hours (at the time of writing this)... I don't know what I'm doing wrong... This is my trunk readme.txt https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pootle-page-builder/trunk/README.txt (I have correct Stable tag specified) This is my tagged version 5.1.0 readme.txt https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pootle-page-builder/tags/5.1.0/README.txt (again correct Stable tag specified) Main plugin file https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pootle-page-builder/tags/5.1.0/pootle-page-builder.php (version correct here too 5.1.0) I don't see my changelog modifications here either... https://wordpress.org/plugins/pootle-page-builder/ …

Short version of question : : I am not asking the difference between WordPress.com vs WordPress.org.... I am asking difference between WordPress.com Business plan vs WordPress.org Long version of question : According to https://wordpress.com/pricing/, WordPress business plan allow to install third-party themes and plugins. So what is the difference between WordPress Business plan vs self hosted WordPress? In other word, what are the limitation (WordPress developer perspective) of WordPress Business plan when comparing self hosted WordPress?

I am new in WordPress but I wanted to know how to check my plugin name is unique or not and how to upload this plugin in wordpress.org. Please guide me how is it possible. ?

I mean, for what I remember of my english classes it should be WordPress', or not? Would this be a Meta Question? Or a English Language & Usage one? [update] What I ended up writing (in an email) before Comments and Answers was ...deal with a couple of WordPress' projects... [update] Well, it ended up being an Engrish Fail. Thanks, Johannes, for opening the question at English Language & Usage. Toscho's answer also prompted me to open another at Spanish …