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Authorship Box self-updates

WordPress plugin for creating authors and schema code for content.

by Cole · github.com/dlmcole/author-wp-plugin · website

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/dlmcole/author-wp-plugin/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

Ships its own WordPress updater (built-in updater), so new versions show up under Dashboard → Updates.

Readme github.com/dlmcole/author-wp-plugin ↗

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.