Deploy your plugin to the WordPress.org repository using GitHub Actions.
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).
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SVN_USERNAME
SVN_PASSWORD
Secrets are set in your repository settings. They cannot be viewed once stored.
SLUG
- Defaults to the repository name. This is customizable in case your WordPress repository has a different slug or is capitalized differently.VERSION
- Defaults to the tag name. We do not recommend setting this except for testing purposes.ASSETS_DIR
- Defaults to.wordpress-org
. This is customizable for other locations of WordPress.org plugin repository-specific assets that belong in the top-levelassets
directory (the one on the same level astrunk
).BUILD_DIR
- Defaults tofalse
. Set this flag to the directory where you build your plugins files into, then the action will copy and deploy files from that directory. Both absolute and relative paths are supported. The relative path if provided will be concatenated with the repository root directory. All files and folders in the build directory will be deployed,.disignore
or.gitattributes
will be ignored.
generate-zip
- Defaults tofalse
. Generate a ZIP file from the SVNtrunk
directory. Outputs azip-path
variable for use in further workflow steps.dry-run
- Defaults tofalse
. Set this totrue
if you want to skip the final Subversion commit step (e.g., to debug prior to a non-dry-run commit).
zip-path
- The path to the ZIP file generated ifgenerate-zip
is set totrue
. Fully qualified including the filename, intended for use in further workflow steps such as uploading release assets.
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).
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
# Directories
/.wordpress-org export-ignore
/.github export-ignore
# Files
/.gitattributes export-ignore
/.gitignore export-ignore
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, but it must be in that directory. The usage of ubuntu-latest
is recommended for compatibility with required dependencies in this Action.
name: Deploy to WordPress.org
on:
push:
tags:
- "*"
jobs:
tag:
name: New tag
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@master
- name: Build # Remove or modify this step as needed
run: |
npm install
npm run build
- name: WordPress Plugin Deploy
uses: 10up/action-wordpress-plugin-deploy@stable
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
name: Deploy to WordPress.org
on:
release:
types: [published]
jobs:
tag:
name: New release
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Build
run: |
npm install
npm run build
- name: WordPress Plugin Deploy
id: deploy
uses: 10up/action-wordpress-plugin-deploy@stable
with:
generate-zip: true
env:
SVN_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SVN_USERNAME }}
SVN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SVN_PASSWORD }}
- name: Upload release asset
uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
upload_url: ${{ github.event.release.upload_url }}
asset_path: ${{ steps.deploy.outputs.zip-path }}
asset_name: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}.zip
asset_content_type: application/zip
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Our GitHub Actions are available for use and remix under the MIT license.
Active: 10up is actively working on this, and we expect to continue work for the foreseeable future including keeping tested up to the most recent version of WordPress. Bug reports, feature requests, questions, and pull requests are welcome.