Well, we’ve all been there. We have a code at hand from a blog, documentation or knowledge base, but totally clueless on how to test it without ruining existing setup. It says to test on theme functions.php, but client will not be happy if you modify any files. Fear not, let me show a non-destructive way of testing code quickly, in any WordPress installation, without touching anything.

Plugins are the way to go

Plugins are a blessing for WordPress developers. They are easy to install, maintain, update and even deactivate if necessary. The code is completely separate from the installation and you can ditch it anytime you want. That’s a great thing we are targetting here – easy to install, yet easy to remove when done.

If you find a small code snippet, an action or filter that you want to test quickly, then you can cook up a tiny test plugin, put the code there and test. The best thing is when you are done, you can delete the file or deactivate it. The setup will be like it was before (assuming you did not change anything in the system with your test piece of code).

Of course, you can test the code on a theme functions.php. But you will have to revert back to the original version if your code fails – not a good thing if you are in a hurry. Bad indeed.

Smallest plugin code

In order to show up on the plugin list, you just need a file like this below in your wp-contents/plugins directory:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: My Test
*/

Save it on anything you like, for example, test.php. You can also put it inside a folder, but not needed for a small, one time use test plugin.

It will show up in the WP Admin – Plugins screen like this:

Just Activate the plugin and it will run on all WordPress pages, frontend and backend, so easy!

Example test plugin

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Test Message
*/

add_action( 'admin_notices', 'print_message_on_backend' );
function print_message_on_backend() {
// Just a test message to show on WP Admin
echo "<p>Some test message which shows this on every admin page</p>";
}

add_action( 'wp_footer', 'print_message_on_frontend' );
function print_message_on_frontend() {
// Just a test message to show on footer (on frontend)
echo '<p>Some test message to show on footer</p>';
}

Save it in a .php file inside wp-contents/plugins, then check WP Admin – Plugins. Activate the new plugin named “Test Message”. After you activate the plugin, you will see that the code you entered on your new test plugin works. You will see the message in the code on every WP Admin page you visit.

This was just some test code. You can try as many things as you want. But if you are manipulating any data, it is always a better idea to keep backup, even if you are using a test plugin.

So it is possible! Testing a code in 2 minutes. The best part is – it is not touching any file in the install and you can easily remove the plugin when you are done with it.

If you need any help regarding custom plugins or any queries regarding this article feel free to contact us.

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We are very happy to announce a maintenance release of 1.0.25 for our Intercom Subscription plugin. This release addresses the API update to the latest version from the platform author – Intercom.

We have learned that Intercom has released their API version 1.1 with some structural changes to the API. This may make our previous code to not function properly. So it asks for an urgent and prompt maintenance release with a fix.

As you know, maintenance releases are not always exciting, but they are crucial to have a stable working software. This release is just that. We are looking for more improvements to be added to the plugin in future, but until we find time in our busy schedule, this is the release we have for you at the moment.

Let’s check the updates that await you:

Intercom API version updated

Intercom has pushed a new update to their API. When we first introduced our plugin it was at 1.0. The latest update made it to 1.1. It has some notable changes in the API structure.

To enjoy the new features, you will have to select 1.1 version of the API from the Developer Hub’s App settings if it’s not already selected:

Our plugin was not ready for 1.1. So using the new API with our plugin for example, would result in users to be not listed. There might be other problems on the way, but we have found this issue to be prominent.

The latest version of our plugin 1.0.25 has been updated to include Intercom API 1.1. This will result in smoother performance with the new version of the API, if you choose to use it.

The latest version of our plugin 1.0.25 has been updated to include Intercom API 1.1. This will result in smoother performance with the new version of the API, if you choose to use it.
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Fixed Intercom user not being listed

In our brief testing with API 1.1, we found out that user is not placed correctly on Intercom from the previous version of our plugin. This is due to using “users endpoint” feature of the API. Users endpoint has changes in data structures which was incompatible with our existing code. Intercom suggested to apply changes to code for compatibility. So we changed our code in 1.0.25 of our plugin and it ultimately fixed the issue.

Notice about PHP version

Intercom API 1.1 requires at least PHP 7.2 to be present on your server. As we are using the latest API, the requirement would apply to you as well. Please contact your developer or webhost to ensure that you have the version or later installed.

In summary, this version provides important update to the plugin to ensure continuous stability of the plugin. It might not bring new features into the table, but it is essential to make the plugin functional for the latest API changes.

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Currently, at the time of writing this article, the stable version of WordPress is at 4.9.8. So it is safe to say that a new WordPress 5.0 will be upon us soon. It is a great time to have a peek at the features that will be shipped with it. There is a development version available for testing. Depending on the development version together with some resources, we can guess what it will be like to have a WP 5.0 installation in our hands. So let’s jump in!

What Changed in WordPress 5.0

As a major-version release there are many changes in WP 5.0, including changes in frontend and backend which deserves the attention. Mainly:

• A new editor, Gutenberg will be the default editor for posts and pages
• A new theme named Twenty Nineteen will be the default
• Various security updates
• REST API improvements
• Better copy-paste – will retain formatting better

Gutenberg handles copy-pastes automatically. e.g. creates blocks for each paragraph when 2 paragraphs pasted.

How the New Editor Works (AKA Gutenberg)

Probably the most hyped feature of WP 5.0 is the Gutenberg editor. If you can’t resist, you can download and use it on the old versions with a plugin. It is a replacement for the current TinyMCE based WYSIWYG editor found in the edit page. It honors the idea of having a friendlier approach to preparing the content-layout of a page or a post. It tries to eliminate the need to write code for preparing layouts as much as possible, with a concept called “blocks”.

Gutenberg “blocks” are a new idea introduced for WordPress 5

Gutenberg suggests that every part of the content should be a “block”, whether it is text, paragraph, image, widget, shortcode or anything else. With this in mind, you can design almost anything you can imagine on your page or post, in any layout. Want to add a quote in the middle of your text? Want some full-width image in the middle of your main body text? Want to add a photo gallery? Everything is just some clicks away. We hope it would be an editor of dreams for the beginners.

Quotes, videos, photo galleries, columns, lists? Gutenberg can handle everything!

This is not the end, however. You can also save some blocks to use it later on a different post. This is a feature that was exclusive to only some premium page builders before and is now baked into Gutenberg.

Gutenberg will be a part of the WordPress 5.0 Core and will be included as default. If you are excited, you can try Gutenberg on a live demo or try it as a plugin on a test WordPress installation.

Your old content will stay put. It will be shown in a “Classic block” with a TineMCE editor to keep your old content intact and editable as it is. You can go ahead and convert it to a block if you wish to:

Classic content stays in a TinyMCE editor and optionally can be converted to a block. So you can rest assured be able to use the old editor to make changes to your old content. So no worries there.

How to Update to WordPress 5.0

At the time of writing this article, WP 5.0 is not yet available through the official download page. So, you will have to get the latest development code from SVN repo or Download from this link. (Once the stable version is out, you should get a notification as usual and update as normal. But now it is not an option. Also, as it is a major update, trying it first on a test copy of your website is a better idea.)

You can install development version like you normally install WordPress. The Installation interface is similar to the old version. Nothing new can be noticed so far.

WordPress 5 installation screen

You can also upgrade to development version from an old 4.x installation of WordPress. Just replace everything on your WordPress installation except the wp-content directory from the development version and that should do it. This is a development version after all. So, you can try on a local or staging copy. This is best if you want to check how your website would hold up to the new version. But let us be clear we would recommend to stay away from the development version for a production website.

After the installation, you should have WordPress 5 way before the release date! Feel free to test around and check new features.

Feels great to have WP 5 before anyone else!

WP 5.0 will have Gutenberg as default. Surprizingly enough, as of now, the SVN version does not have the Gutenberg editor by default. Go ahead and install the plugin from WP Admin.

As a sidenote, if you want to update, but keep using the old editor instead of Gutenberg, you can install the Classic Editor plugin on WordPress 5.0 to use the old TinyMCE editor.

What the New Theme Looks Like

There will be a theme called “Twenty Nineteen” with WordPress 5.0. It is currently not installed by default on the SVN version. So we looked for it in the theme repository, but it was not there either. With a bit of searching we found it was supposed to be released in November 2018, but it has not yet been published.

But fear not, we found it here on GitHub. You can download it and extract to your wp-content/themes, then activate through WP Admin – Appearance.

Activating the Twenty Nineteen theme on WordPress 5 SVN version

The Twenty Nineteen theme is built to be fluid, so that any layout can be built with less effort. With our default install, it looks like this below:

Twenty Nineteen theme default look

It is not much to look at first, but a great theme to do further customization and build your content on. It is a good theme for minimalist look, exceptional typography and general purpose content showcasing. It also scales nicely for many display sizes.

Twenty Nineteen theme on different screens

Bottom Line

30% of all websites on the Internet is powered by WordPress. Having an update at hand for WordPress is like having an update for the internet!

WP 5.0 is a shiny new update that sounds like a must-have. It was planned to be released on November 2018, but this is not a strict deadline. Developers seem to be targeting towards a more finished product rather than having a haste release. It may take up to January 2019 for the final release. Being a major update, we would recommend to delay the update when a stable version is released. Testing the upgrade on a staging or a local copy first would be ideal.

Have a good time with WordPress 5.0.

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We are excited to announce another release of the versatile and feature-rich Mplus Intercom Subscription plugin. 1.0.24 is a minor release, but not to mention an important one.

We are excited to announce another release of the versatile and feature-rich Mplus Intercom Subscription plugin. 1.0.24 is a minor release, but not to mention an important one.
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In this latest batch of changes we have updated the logo to a new one, fixed admin menu icon not showing issue and updated company field description to be more natural.

Let’s see in detail the newest of changes:

New Branding

We have redesigned our logo for Intercom Subscription and all its addons. We had fitting logos before, but they lacked uniformity and consistency across products. So we initiated a redesign of all the logos.

Please welcome our new set of logos for the Intercom Subscription family:

The top one is for our base plugin and the others are for Addons — all 12 of them.

So we applied changes to our WordPress.org plugin page also:

We have changed the logo and banner accordingly. Redesign is always exciting. We hope you enjoy the new logos as much as we did designing.

Admin Menu Icon Fix

It went under our radar for quite a long time. Humans are not without errors. This is a case to confirm it. The reality is, we had the menu image right committed properly in our GitHub plugin repo (luckily). But when committing with SVN, it missed the file for some reason. We fixed it by using –force with our svn add command.

The issue should now be fixed.

“Create it” vs “Create here”

We had lots of internal debate on whether to use “Create it” or “Create here”. The text is a link under the company selection field (if you have it enabled). At the end we decided that “Created here” sounds more friendly, easy to understand and natural to our human users. So we decided to stick with it.

It has been two months since we last released a version. Sorry, we were busy with other projects. We have many features in the wish list, but we also try to keep the plugin lightweight as possible. That’s why we think every feature through before implementing them on the codebase.

So, to wrap up, we have more plans for future with this amazing Intercom plugin. We are constantly striving to improve the addons as well. But there could be many improvements to be made that could be missed by us. We hope you have suggestions for improvements too? Please let us know if this is the case. Till then enjoy the release!

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Nobody likes slow loading websites. Technologies have made things smoother, faster and easier for us. We like faster things, so it is needless to say that we don’t like waiting for minutes to load a website. So having a fast loading website is a significant part of the User Experience.

Here are some reasons why having a fast loading website is important:
– Google likes fast loading websites and ranks them at the top. Google’s Official Webmaster Central Blog confirms that.
– A fast loading e-commerce website can bring in extra sales for you. Even being 1 second faster matters.
– A fast loading website can reduce the stress on your webserver and ensure stable performance over time.
– Your website can get more page loads and user engagement when you have a fast loading website.
– And of course it gives a better User Experience.

Google likes fast loading websites and ranks them at the top. Google's Official Webmaster Central Blog confirms that.
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If you have a slow website this will impact your sales, user conversion, page loads and many other things. The bottom line being, nobody wants to be slow.

If you have a slow website this will impact your sales, user conversion, page loads and many other things. The bottom line being, nobody wants to be slow.
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Gathering Data about Website Speed

Worry not. There are many tools to analyze why a website loads slow. These tools help look into elements that slow down a website. Knowing the reason for the slow speed would be the first step for your Website Speed Optimization. Let’s see how you can take that first step to Website Speed Optimization and hopefully even get more insights about your website on the way.

GTMetrix.com

This is by far the easiest method we tried. Even a kid with instructions can get a decent analysis from this!

This is by far the easiest method we tried. Even a kid with instructions can get a decent analysis from this!
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– Go to gtmetrix.com.
– Register and login in order to get HAR file output.
– Enter the website URL and click Analyze.
– It will load your website on its server and give you speed analysis results for many tools, such as PageSpeed, YSlow, Waterfall etc.
– Visit the tabs to see which elements are slowing down your website.
– To get the HAR file, go to Waterfall tab and click the Download HAR File button.

Firefox Devtool

This method requires a little more engagement, but you can get insights into your website’s elements that are contributing to a slower speed. Firefox has a comprehensive devtool that allows to export a HAR file. Although similar features exist in Chrome Devtools, I could not find a way to export a HAR file from it. You can try other browser devtools if you don’t need HAR file export.

– Start Firefox web browser.
– Paste the website address on location bar, but don’t press enter.
– Right click on empty space and choose Inspect element.
– Go to “Performance” tab and click Start Recording.
– Go to “Network” tab and click the Trash icon to delete any previous log records.
– Now hit enter on the location bar and let it load completely (be attentive on the loading animation on the tab bar).
– You can go to Performence tab and click Stop Recording.
– Now go back to Network tab and you will see detailed log of which item took how much time to load. This will help you take the next steps.
– To export HAR file right click any item, then click “Save All as HAR file”. It will download the HAR file to your computer. If you don’t need a HAR file, skip this step.

We have prepared a video showing these data gathering methods in greater details. You can follow this step by step guide to easily get information about your website speed:

Basic Data Analysis Tool Online

Now that you have the HAR data on your hands, you can start to analyze it.
– Go to this Online HAR Analyzer tool.
– Browse and select your HAR file.
– It will show which elements are slowing down your website.

It is just a basic tool to show the elements inside the HAR file. This is similar to what you get on GTMetrix results or your browser devtool. In this case HAR file seems not to helpful. But it is great for sending to developers to get helpful insight into your website’s performance.

Last Thoughts

There are many ways to optimize the loading time of a website. The most basic ones being optimizing images, using CDNs, minifying css/js files etc. There are endless other ways to improve. It is upto website admins, content creators and developers to apply and maintain rules to ensure optimal website speed.

If you ever consult a development team to speed up your website, please remember, website speed optimization is not a one time thing. Be sure to ask them of any rules you should follow to ensure that the optimized speed stays intact over time.

If you ever consult a development team to speed up your website, please remember, website speed optimization is not a one time thing...
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If any of these seem difficult to you or you need help getting the optimal speed from your WordPress website, contact us and we will try our best to get your website optimized.

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We have recently released an update to our Intercom Subscription Plugin. We have introduced some timely changes and minor fixes on this recent release. Let’s go through the changes here to see what new features are now available to you.

This version introduces Honeypot Spamtrap as a measure to fight spam requests. Also, we have updated the structure of the form that creates companies.

Honeypot Spamtrap

We open our sites to all the people of the world. But unfortunately, not all our users are good. There are some bad guys out there who are after your site to cause harm and disruption. You may have heard before that some bad guys setup artificial programs to submit the forms in random websites with fake information. These programs are called “Robots”.

These are usually setup by ill-mannered people who try to push their ill-fitted products on your website. Maybe you’ve noticed, you get loads of new comments on your website, even if you’ve just set it up a few days ago and nobody else knows about it. You should also notice that the comments are somewhat out of context and not useful for your content. These comments are artificial and posted by these Robots. If the comments get published it will not be good for you. You will be supporting something which you do not stand for.

Maybe you've noticed, you get loads of new comments on your website, even if you've just set it up a few days ago ... the comments are somewhat out of context and not useful for your content. These comments are artificial and posted by…
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The same risk is true for our Intercom Subscription form.

There are many ways this has been handled in the past by security experts. One of them is CAPTCHA, which is easy to solve by humans but hard to solve for robots. But they are a User Experience nightmare. Who likes to solve CAPTCHA every now and then?

Another clever way to tackle these Robots is to use Honeypot Spamtrap. It works by placing an obscure, hidden field that act like it is a part of the form, but actually isn’t. It does nothing and it is meant to be kept blank. A human like us can’t see the field so we will obviously leave the field blank. But Robots are programmed to fill every field. They are designed this way so that it does not get rejected for having a blank field. Whenever this field is filled, we can detect an automated submission and reject the entry from getting into our system.

With this trick Robots can be detected and stopped from clogging up your website. Plus, no annoyances from our lovely happy users. Users will have to do nothing extra to get validated.

We have implemented Honeypot Spamtrap as a first and basic measure to fight spam on your intercom form. You can enable it from the settings. It is disabled by default.

We recommend that you enable this option if you expect heavy traffic on your website or expecting some spam requests. This should be a basic defense against those pesky spammers.

If you are expecting better spam protection, we are thinking about implementing a CAPTCHA feature for people who need it. Of course, we plan to keep it as optional as every other feature so that it is not pushed against you by force. Please also let us know if you have any better ideas for fighting spams.

Company Creation Form Fields

If you enable company integration, this change might be useful to you. We have introduced a shortcode in our previous release that puts a form to create companies in Intercom so that it can be selected as a company on the subscription form. The field names on the form are now made to match with the labels on the Intercom Dashboard, so you can relate them easily. The field names are often times confusing by itself, so we added helpful hints to go with the fields.

We hope it will now be more user friendly when creating a company for the subscription.

Besides these changes, we have also updated the screenshots on the plugin page to reflect the changes.

That’s about it for today. These are probably minor but important changes for how you use Intercom Subscription on your website. Go ahead, install our plugin and have a great time!

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Around a month ago we published our Intercom Subscription plugin to the WordPress.org repository. We are excited to announce that we have released 1.0.18 version of our versatile and flexible Intercom Subscription plugin with important features and improvements.

This version brings consent checkbox options, cleaner admin interface and new hooks for your greatest new WordPress website. Exciting indeed!

This version brings consent checkbox options, cleaner admin interface and new hooks for your greatest new WordPress website. Exciting indeed!
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So let’s go through all the exciting new features we worked on for v1.0.18 release.

Added Consent Checkbox

Consent checkbox is a nice option. We think it should be an “option” – meaning, admin should have the control to enable or disable the checkbox. So, we have introduced an option for the admin to either provide a consent checkbox, or not. You can also play with the hook we introduced for the checkbox option.

Added Lots of New Hooks

Hooks are always a nice thing to play with. Especially if you’re a developer. So many new hooks have been added to this already great plugin, including user creation, settings fields and addon activation. Hopefully this covers every basic customization needs. We’re also open to requests for new hooks.

Cleaner Menu with Easier Activation Options

The Admin menu for Intercom Subscription plugin has been updated to be simple and more user friendly than before. Every setting page is available under one single menu, which does not clog up your WP Admin menu. It also has a colored icon to distinguish from other plugin pages.

Code Refactoring + Improvements

We have updated minor code structures and applied subtle naming changes. We have also added a class_exists check for all classes, so that they can be overriden from outside. These are under the hood changes. So, a user may not feel these changes happening but developers would love these.

Minor improvements:
– Revised readme
– File access security
– CSS formatted according to coding standards
– Removed debug code
– Minor code changes

Note: We have changed the option name for the “Access Token” field. If you suddenly find out that your access token is blank, this is normal! Please fill up the access token again.

We are very happy to release this version. We certainly hope to improve the plugin more and bring out new, fresh addons to help you achieve what you always wanted to do with Intercom. Feel free to let us know what you think of the changes and what we can implement in future versions.

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It is that time again. The cheerful day that we all have been waiting for. All of our hard work has seen the light. Well, if you are not sure what I mean, I was talking about the day we published our Intercom Subscription plugin to WordPress.org repo.

For those who are curious, here are the steps we followed to publish our plugin on WordPress.org Plugin Repository:

1. Check Guidelines

Make sure your plugin follows all the guidelines for the submission. You can read details here:
https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/

These guidelines are pretty straightforward and any normal plugin should pass. We know ours did the first time!

You should also look into how the readme.txt works in any WordPress.org plugin. This is the file that holds all the content that shows up on the plugin page. If you want an example, you can check one for WooCommerce here. You can hopefully figure out everything.

The thing that took me some time to understand is the Screenshots section. You will have to put screenshots as screenshot-1.jpg, screenshot-2.jpg etc. under the /assets directory of the repo. You’ll get a repo later and you’ll understand where to put it. But right now, in the readme, you will correspond to that number and write descriptions for the screenshot:

== Screenshots ==

1. This is a screenshot showing a feature.
2. This is another screenshot showing another feature.

2. Time to Get Approval

Now its time to Submit for approval. Register/Login to:
https://login.wordpress.org/wp-login.php

Your WordPress.org Account page will open up.
Now navigate to https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/add/ for options for submitting a new plugin. Just zip your plugin and submit. Please remember to give your folder and plugin file a good name before zipping. This will give you a slug for the plugin page URL which cannot be changed.

After you submit, a page similar to this will appear.

Now you will have to wait for the approval. It may take up to 10 days or 5 business days to get approved, depending on the queue of other submitted plugins. Ours got approved the next day.

3. After Approval:

When you receive the approval email, you will have to use an SVN client on your machine, such as SVN for Windows to checkout the plugin code:

svn co https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/your-plugin-name your-local-dir

Then go into the repo directory and keep your plugin content inside the trunk directory. Keep in mind you should not keep your plugin files in a directory. You should keep the files directly under trunk directory. Also, make sure you have trunk as the value to Stable tag: on your readme.txt. Now cd to the repo directory then add the files:

cd /path/to/svn/repo
svn add trunk/*

(On Windows, you use cd /D /some/path to switch to the drive. Sometimes some subdirectories may not get added. If this is the case you should see a question mark beside that file when running svn status. To fix this add --force with the add command: svn add --force trunk/*.)

Please note, keeping your release version under /trunk is ok when your project is simple. But as you grow it is suggested to put the release version under /tags directory under a specific tag and point to the release tag with readme.txt.

Now add the icons and banner images in assets directory. You can save the banner as banner-772×250.jpg. The dimensions of the banner image should be 772px by 250px, as the name suggests. You can put the icons as icon-128×128.jpg and icon-256×256.jpg and use the dimensions as in the filename. Also add the screenshots as screenshot-1.jpg, screenshot-2.jpg etc.

You can also use png as the extension for icons, banners and screenshots, if you wish. If you have an svg version of the icon, you can include that too as icon.svg. For a hint, you can visit the SVN repository of Hello Dolly plugin.

After adding the icon, banner and screenshot images, run:

svn add assets/*

(Add --force if any file has not been added: svn add --force assets/*.)

Check and double check if everything is as it should be. If not, change the files and add the files again with the commands above.

Then when you are ready, run:

svn ci -m 'Added first version of the plugin'

If failed, try:

svn ci -m 'Added first version of the plugin' --username wporgusername --password wporgpassword

We had some special characters in our passwords, so we had to add quotation marks around our password. Something like this:

svn ci -m 'Added first version of the plugin' --username wporgusername --password "wporgpassword"

Eventually, you should see the checkin/commit to be finished:

Now there you have it. We got our plugin published with these simple steps. If you are curious, visit our plugin page here. You can also install it by searching for “mplus intercom” from WP Admin – Plugins – Add New of any WordPress installation.

Next time you have some changes, use svn add and then svn ci to commit the changes. Don’t forget to update the version number on readme and plugin file header. This will automatically generate your plugin zip file and push updates to user.

Remember, once your plugin gets published, you should apply changes to the repo moderately because they have an automated process that generates the plugin zip file automatically. It may create stress on their end if you frequently commit. Also, users will be annoyed if you push updates frequently.

Remember, once your plugin gets published, you should apply changes to the repo moderately because they have an automated process...
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Well, that’s about it. This is a glorious time for all of our teammates. We are eager to contribute more plugins to the WordPress plugin repository in future.

Till then, cheers! Have a good life!

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