WordPress.org Plugin Deploy

This Action commits the contents of your Git tag to the WordPress.org plugin repository using the same tag name. It can exclude files as defined in either .distignore or .gitattributes, and moves anything from a .wordpress-org subdirectory to the top-level assets directory in Subversion (plugin banners, icons, and screenshots).

☞ For updating the readme and items in the assets directory between releases, please see our WordPress.org Plugin Readme/Assets Update Action

Configuration

Required secrets

• SVN_USERNAME
• SVN_PASSWORD

Secrets are set in your repository settings. They cannot be viewed once stored.

Optional environment variables

• SLUG - defaults to the repository name, customizable in case your WordPress repository has a different slug or is capitalized differently.
• VERSION - defaults to the tag name; do not recommend setting this except for testing purposes.
• ASSETS_DIR - defaults to .wordpress-org, customizable for other locations of WordPress.org plugin repository-specific assets that belong in the top-level assets directory (the one on the same level as trunk).

Excluding files from deployment

If there are files or directories to be excluded from deployment, such as tests or editor config files, they can be specified in either a .distignore file or a .gitattributes file using the export-ignore directive. If a .distignore file is present, it will be used; if not, the Action will look for a .gitattributes file and barring that, will write a basic temporary .gitattributes into place before proceeding so that no Git/GitHub-specific files are included.

.distignore is useful particularly when there are built files that are in .gitignore, and is a file that is used in WP-CLI. For modern plugin setups with a build step and no built files committed to the repository, this is the way forward. .gitattributes is useful for plugins that don't run a build step as a part of the Actions workflow and also allows for GitHub's generated ZIP files to contain the same contents as what is committed to WordPress.org. If you would like to attach a ZIP file with the proper contents that decompresses to a folder name without version number as WordPress generally expects, you can add steps to your workflow that generate the ZIP and attach it to the GitHub release (concrete examples to come).

Sample baseline files

.distignore

Notes: .distignore is for files to be ignored only; it does not currently allow negation like .gitignore. This comes from its current expected syntax in WP-CLI's wp dist-archive command. It is possible that this Action will allow for includes via something like a .distinclude file in the future, or that WP-CLI itself makes a change that this Action will reflect for consistency. It also will need to contain more than .gitattributes because that method also respects .gitignore.

/.wordpress-org
/.git
/.github
/node_modules

.distignore
.gitignore

.gitattributes

# Directories
/.wordpress-org export-ignore
/.github export-ignore

# Files
/.gitattributes export-ignore
/.gitignore export-ignore

Example Workflow Files

To get started, you will want to copy the contents of one of these examples into .github/workflows/deploy.yml and push that to your repository. You are welcome to name the file something else.

Deploy on pushing a new tag

name: Deploy to WordPress.org
on:
  push:
    tags:
    - "*"
jobs:
  tag:
    name: New tag
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/[email protected]
    - name: Build # Remove or modify this step as needed
      run: |
        npm install
        npm run build
    - name: WordPress Plugin Deploy
      uses: 10up/[email protected]
      env:
        SVN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SVN_PASSWORD }}
        SVN_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SVN_USERNAME }}
        SLUG: my-super-cool-plugin # optional, remove if GitHub repo name matches SVN slug, including capitalization

Deploy on publishing a new release and attach a ZIP file to the release

name: Deploy to WordPress.org
on:
  release:
    types: [published]
jobs:
  tag:
    name: New release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout code
      uses: actions/[email protected]
    - name: Build
      run: |
        npm install
        npm run build
    - name: WordPress Plugin Deploy
      id: deploy
      uses: 10up/[email protected]
      with:
        generate-zip: true
      env:
        SVN_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SVN_USERNAME }}
        SVN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SVN_PASSWORD }}
    - name: Upload release asset
      uses: actions/[email protected]
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
        upload_url: ${{ github.event.release.upload_url }}
        asset_path: ${{github.workspace}}/${{ github.event.repository.name }}.zip
        asset_name: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}.zip
        asset_content_type: application/zip

Contributing

Want to help? Check out our contributing guidelines to get started.

License

Our GitHub Actions are available for use and remix under the MIT license.

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