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WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials
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WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials

by Brian Bondari, Everett Griffiths
March 2011
Beginner to intermediate
300 pages
7h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Format for the readme.txt file

There are only a couple more requirements for you to fulfill before you can submit your plugin to the WordPress repository. One of those requirements is that each plugin must be accompanied by a readme.txt file, and several of the other requirements can piggyback on its merits once you have written this file. We included information about writing good documentation in the previous chapter—this section has only to do with using the correct format for that documentation.

The readme.txt file uses a standardized format to describe a plugin's functionality, installation procedures, and a usage manual. Its contents are automatically parsed by the WordPress plugin repository to display an information page for each plugin—you've ...

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