Opened 8 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#3022 closed enhancement (fixed)
Plugin Directory: Add a "latest" URL for readme file standard
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Description (last modified by )
Background: #2614
The plugin readme file standard is currently linked to from six places:
- Developer Information page in the directory.
- WordPress.org page in Plugin Developer Handbook.
- Planning Your Plugin page in Plugin Developer Handbook.
- How to Use Subversion page in Plugin Developer Handbook.
- How Your Readme.txt Works page in Plugin Developer Handbook.
- Plugin Developer FAQ page in Plugin Developer Handbook.
Some of the handbook links used the old https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/readme.txt
URL, which redirects to https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/, but not directly to the file or at least to the "Readme Files" section.
Others used the outdated 2016/06/readme.txt link instead of the current one: 2017/03/readme.txt.
I've just updated the handbook links to point to https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/#readme, which has a paragraph linking to the file. However, it would help to have a direct URL to the file, e.g. /plugins/files/readme.txt
, that would work like https://wordpress.org/latest.zip.
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This was fixed in [6411] (thanks @obenland!). The "latest" readme.txt location is https://wordpress.org/plugins/readme.txt.
It looks like there is one issue to be fixed, which is that the HTTP response to that URL is 404 (even though it serves the content).