[wp-hackers] wordpress.org profile no longer lists my plugins

[Paul Menard]

Oh excellent! Thanks Otto


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> Additional: If you change your Display Name here:
> https://wordpress.org/support/profile/pmenard/edit
>
> Then that will get picked up and used instead of "pmenard" for the name in
> the sidebar on plugin pages, even if you use "pmenard" as the Contributors
> line in the readme.
>
> Example:
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/pluginception/
>
> Look in the sidebar under Author. Has my full name. But the readme.txt has
> this:
>
> Contributors: Otto42
>
> Which is my username.
>
> Eventually, we plan to integrate the /support/profiles page with the
> profiles w.org pages, but we're not there yet. Profiles should eventually
> become the single place to control info about your w.org account.
>
> -Otto
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
> > Your plugins are not showing because your readme.txt files contain
> > incorrect information.
> >
> > Example:
> > https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simply-exclude/tags/2.0.6.1/readme.txt
> >
> > You have this line:
> >
> > Contributors: Paul Menard
> >
> > From the example readme.txt file:
> > https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/readme.txt
> >
> > Contributors: (this should be a list of wordpress.org userid's)
> >
> > Your user-id on wordpress.org is "pmenard", not "Paul Menard". We
> > actually parse those files in order to build information and do all these
> > things with the data. Bad data in = bad results.
> >
> > Change that to "pmenard" and two main things will happen:
> > - Your profile will show those plugins
> > - Your plugin pages author info in the sidebar will show your picture and
> > name and link to your profile
> >
> >
> > -Otto
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Paul Menard <paul at codehooligans.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks J.D.
> >>
> >> Yeah, strange that mine are not showing.
> >>
> >
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