What is the way to ship read-me strings like plugin-strings for internationalization?

I want to translate my plugin for non-English languages. But for readme strings, I could find the only option to submit translations over translate.wordpress.org. Is there any way like the one available for plugin strings where you can ship plugin strings with the release without waiting for your translations to get accepted? 1 Answer 1 … Read more

Styling readme.html in plugin?

I am making readme.html file for a plugin with some detailed setup instruction that need to include screenshots. As rest of UI I want it be consistent with WordPress style and so I looked at its own readme.html. It includes stylesheet with relative path: <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/12101/wp-admin/css/install.css?ver=20100228″ type=”text/css” /> So for a plugin file I … Read more

Adding Image in readme.txt file of wordpress plugin

It is possible to add a gif file in the readme.txt file of wordpress plugin in the wordpress.org plugin repository? My plugin url is https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-toggle-comments-form-fields/ I don’t want the image in the screeshot section – I need the image in the description section. I know that i can insert a video but in my plugin … Read more

How to update WordPress plugin readme.txt description page without triggering a plugin update?

Is it possible to update the readme.txt file for a plugin without releasing a new plugin version update? 2 Answers 2 When you look at the plugin description (and other sections), it all comes from the current version README.TXT file. So if you upload a changed version of README.TXT to the current version’s repository (not … Read more

Custom headers for the WordPress plugin directory

I just have submitted one of my simple WP Widget to the WordPress Directory. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-twitter-trends/ I want to add Plugin Title Image as like in http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/ How can I add that? From readme.txt file? How? 1 Answer 1 Very simple, All you need to create a image of size exactly 772×250 pixel and name it … Read more

New lines inside paragraph in README.md

When editing an issue and clicking Preview the following markdown source: a b c shows every letter on a new line. However, it seems to me that pushing similar markdown source structure in README.md joins all the letters on one line. I’d like the new lines preserved in the README.md in this project: https://github.com/zoran119/simple-read-only-test Any … Read more

How to add color to GitHub’s README.md file

I have a README.md file for my project underscore-cli, and I want to document the –color flag. Currently, the only way to do this is with a screenshot (which can be stored in the project repository): But screenshots aren’t text, preventing readers from copy/pasting the command in the screenshot. They’re also a pain to create … Read more