How is the WordPress.org plugin download history calculated?

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

How do I retrieve a list of popular plugins using the WordPress.org Plugin API?

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

Theme Review: post thumbnail, header image, content width

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

Making plugin unique to not conflict with plugins with the same name

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

“Donate to this plugin” for WordPress.org Plugin Authors

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

WP.org API: Accessing plugin downloads “Today” value?

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

Allowing Two Developers Access to a Plugin on the WordPress.org Plugin Repository?

There are two (2) steps. Add the WordPress.org username of the contributor you want to add to the “contributors” line in the header info of the Readme file, and that person will have SVN commit access to the plugin. Go to the plugin repository and log in with the main account Go to your plug-in … Read more