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How do I get the [View details] link to appear on the Plugin admin page in the Description area?

The plugin is working fine, the version and authors (with links) show up fine, but no [View details] like most other plugins.

Perhaps I’m asking the wrong question, but I’m working on a plugin and I would like to show the readme.txt and screenshots like I see in so many plugins. How do I get this link to appear and show the contents of the readme.txt file?

I’ve been reading through Professional WordPress Plugin Development, but I can’t find this reference. I can refer to an external URI, but I would like the nice and concise panel that shows on other plugins.

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The ‘View details’ link in the installed plugins list table is only shown for plugins that are hosted in the WordPress.org plugin repository. If you take a look at the source for WP_Plugins_List_Table->single_row(), you’ll see that the details link is only generated if there’s API data present, e.g. the slug is set:

// Details link using API info, if available
if ( isset( $plugin_data['slug'] ) && current_user_can( 'install_plugins' ) ) {
    $plugin_meta[] = sprintf( '<a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/162146/%s" class="thickbox" aria-label="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/162146/%s" data-title="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/162146/%s">%s</a>',
        esc_url( network_admin_url( 'plugin-install.php?tab=plugin-information&plugin=' . $plugin_data['slug'] .
            '&TB_iframe=true&width=600&height=550' ) ),
        esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'More information about %s' ), $plugin_name ) ),
        esc_attr( $plugin_name ),
        __( 'View details' )
    );
} elseif ( ! empty( $plugin_data['PluginURI'] ) ) {
    $plugin_meta[] = sprintf( '<a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/162146/%s">%s</a>',
        esc_url( $plugin_data['PluginURI'] ),
        __( 'Visit plugin site' )
    );
}

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