In the readme.txt file, the “Screenshots” section is a special section. The WordPress plugin repository checks your Assets folder (or the folder containing readme.txt) for images named in a certain way and corresponds them to the entries in this section. I don’t believe it is possible to attach images in the same way in any … Read more
The code used on wordpress.org to render readme files is here: class Markdown. You can download the class and the dependencies, then you should be able to set up a simple custom reader. If you want to see it as close as possible to the actual page, you can download/checkout per SVN the theme from … Read more
I’ve answered a similar Question: Does the number of downloads displayed for a plug-in in the WordPress.org plug-in directory include automatic updates? This is Otto’s blog post in make.wordpress.org with plenty of information about this stats. Excerpts from the whole page (article and comments), worth reading in full: First, on the extend plugin directory, you … Read more
The current procedure is for plugin’s code to be reviewed for approval: what you can do is to make sure you provided complete and working code what you can hope for, is that reviewers (unpaid volunteer reviewers by the way) are not busy with something else at the moment So essentially it is as long … Read more
I was wrong in the earlier version of the answer and 1.1 version of the API does support this via GET request. The basic request would be: https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.1/?action=query_plugins&request[browse]=popular And you can add more parameters by sticking with request passed as “array” (in GET interpretation of). See the [poor] documentation in Codex and links from there … Read more
RECOMMENDED: No reference to the_post_thumbnail() was found in the theme. It is recommended that the theme implement this functionality instead of using custom fields for thumbnails. This is because you are not using the_post_thumbnail() in your theme, you are trying to get an image from the post content. This means there is no way for … Read more
Yes, just change the readme in the tagged directory that is marked as stable.
Do you need the “View Details” link? It shouldn’t show up unless it’s a WP hosted plugin. Could you just name the plugin whatever you want, but change it with JS in the admin function my_enqueue($hook) { if ( ‘plugins.php’ != $hook ) { return; } wp_enqueue_script( ‘my_custom_script’, plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . ‘changeName.js’, array( ‘jquery’ … Read more
It is read from the infos on your plugins readme.txt. Example from my Default Values for Attachments === Plugin Name === Contributors: moraleida.me Donate link: http://moraleida.me/ Tags: attachments, default values, caption, title, description Requires at least: 2.5 Tested up to: 3.3.2 Stable tag: 0.1 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Late answer A mini plugin as local API This plugin gives you – after you filled in the slug of your repository – the downloads stats as array. The keys are the dates, the values the downloads. <?php /** Plugin Name: (#84254) Plugin stats API */ function wpse84254_get_download_stats() { $response = wp_remote_request( add_query_arg( ‘slug’ ,’YOUR-REPO-PLUGIN-SLUG’ … Read more