Sample Plugin

Contributors: (this should be a list of wordpress.org userid's)
Donate link: http://example.com/
Tags: comments, spam
Requires at least: 4.4
Tested up to: 4.8-alpha-39357-src
Stable tag: 0.1.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Here is a short description of the plugin. This should be no more than 150 characters. No markup here.

Description

This is the long description. No limit, and you can use Markdown (as well as in the following sections).

For backwards compatibility, if this section is missing, the full length of the short description will be used, and Markdown parsed.

A few notes about the sections above:

"Contributors" is a comma separated list of wp.org/wp-plugins.org usernames
"Tags" is a comma separated list of tags that apply to the plugin
"Requires at least" is the lowest version that the plugin will work on
"Tested up to" is the highest version that you've successfully used to test the plugin. Note that it might work on higher versions... this is just the highest one you've verified.
Stable tag should indicate the Subversion "tag" of the latest stable version, or "trunk," if you use /trunk/ for stable.

Note that the readme.txt of the stable tag is the one that is considered the defining one for the plugin, so if the /trunk/readme.txt file says that the stable tag is 4.3, then it is /tags/4.3/readme.txt that'll be used for displaying information about the plugin. In this situation, the only thing considered from the trunk readme.txt is the stable tag pointer. Thus, if you develop in trunk, you can update the trunk readme.txt to reflect changes in your in-development version, without having that information incorrectly disclosed about the current stable version that lacks those changes -- as long as the trunk's readme.txt points to the correct stable tag.

If no stable tag is provided, it is assumed that trunk is stable, but you should specify "trunk" if that's where you put the stable version, in order to eliminate any doubt.

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

Upload plugin-name.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
Place <?php do_action('plugin_name_hook'); ?> in your templates

Frequently Asked Questions

A question that someone might have

An answer to that question.

What about foo bar?

Answer to foo bar dilemma.

Screenshots

1. This screen shot description corresponds to screenshot-1.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif). Note that the screenshot is taken from

the /assets directory or the directory that contains the stable readme.txt (tags or trunk). Screenshots in the /assets directory take precedence. For example, /assets/screenshot-1.png would win over /tags/4.3/screenshot-1.png (or jpg, jpeg, gif).

2. This is the second screen shot

Changelog

1.0

A change since the previous version.
Another change.

0.5

List versions from most recent at top to oldest at bottom.

Upgrade Notice

1.0

Upgrade notices describe the reason a user should upgrade. No more than 300 characters.

0.5

This version fixes a security related bug. Upgrade immediately.

Arbitrary section

You may provide arbitrary sections, in the same format as the ones above. This may be of use for extremely complicated plugins where more information needs to be conveyed that doesn't fit into the categories of "description" or "installation." Arbitrary sections will be shown below the built-in sections outlined above.

A brief Markdown Example

Ordered list:

Some feature
Another feature
Something else about the plugin

Unordered list:

something
something else
third thing

Here's a link to WordPress and one to Markdown's Syntax Documentation. Titles are optional, naturally.

Markdown uses email style notation for blockquotes and I've been told:

Asterisks for emphasis. Double it up for strong.

<?php code(); // goes in backticks ?>

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