Authorship Box

WordPress plugin for creating reusable Author profiles — with full schema.org/Person structured data — and attaching them to posts, pages, or any custom post type. See readme.txt for the full feature/user-facing description (WordPress.org format).

Development

• Local environment: any local WordPress setup works (LocalWP, wp-env, etc.) — symlink or copy this folder into wp-content/plugins/.
• Dev tooling (PHPCS with WordPress Coding Standards) is managed by Composer and is dev-only — it is not required to run the plugin:

  composer install
  composer run lint

• Runtime dependency: Plugin Update Checker is vendored directly under includes/lib/plugin-update-checker/ (committed to git, not Composer-managed) so the plugin works with no build step when installed on a live site.

Releasing an update

1. Bump the Version: header in authorship-box.php.
2. Commit, then tag the commit vX.Y.Z (matching the version header) and push the tag:

   git tag vX.Y.Z
   git push origin vX.Y.Z

3. GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/release.yml) builds a clean zip (via git archive, excluding dev-only files listed in .gitattributes) and attaches it to a new GitHub Release.
4. Sites running the plugin pick up the update automatically via Plugin Update Checker within ~12 hours, or immediately via "Check for updates" on the Plugins page.

CI

.github/workflows/ci.yml runs a PHP syntax check across supported PHP versions and PHPCS/WPCS linting on every push/PR to main.