You can add a free plugin using Appsero. Here are the steps.
Basic Information
To add a new plugin, click on the Add New button. There you will find two options “Add Plugin” and “Add Theme“. Click on the “Add Plugin” button.
As you are adding a free plugin, click on the “No,it’s Free Plugin” button.
If you have the plugin on the WordPress repository already, just add the Slug/URL of that plugin. Click on Submit to finish. Appsero will automatically fetch all the information.
But, there is also an alternative way. Hit the Manual Entry button to enter all the details manually.
Next, there two things. If you add the slug of your plugin then Appsero will automatically fetch all the details from WordPress.org.
But, if you hit the Manual Entry button, then you will have to enter all the details by yourself.
Here are the fields that need to be fulfilled.
Available Fields
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Plugin Name | Yes | The name of the plugin. |
| Slug | Yes | The slug of the plugin. It will be generated automatically but you can change it. Note that you will not be able to update it later. |
| Version | Yes | The version of the plugin. You will be able to add a new version at the time of release. |
| Requires PHP Version | Yes | Requires PHP Version for the plugins. |
| Requires WordPress Version | Yes | WordPress version requires for the plugin. |
| Tested up to | Yes | The maximum version of WordPress the plugin has been tested. |
| Homepage URL | No | Website URL of the plugin. Put Website URL based on the hosted store. Put WordPress.org URL of the plugin, if it is hosted on WordPress.org. |
| Demo URL | No | Demo site URL of the plugin. |
| Description | No | Give a description of the plugin. This field is markdown supported. |
Licensing
Now onto the Licensing part. You can connect your Github/Bitbucket account. If you want to push updates from your Git account, it’s recommended to connect these accounts with Appsero.
- GitHub
- BitBucket
- Gitlab (Upcoming)
You can choose to connect your account with GitHub or Bitbucket.
When you click on the Github’s “Connect“, you will get a pop-up. There you can Enable push to Deploy, and fill up your Git Repository and the Branch.
In the next step, Appsero will offer you to connect your WordPress.org account.
You are done with your Licensing.
If you skip or forget to connect to any of these platforms, you can easily do that from the Integrations section.
Get Started
After, Adding a plugin and Licensing now it is your turn to get started.
You will find an Installation Method section. You need to install an Appsero-Client plugin. You can do that in two ways.
- Composer
- Manual Installation
In the case of Composer, you need to use these below commands.
In the case of Composer, you need to use these below commands.
But in the case of Manual Installation, you need to clone the Appsero Client to your project folder.
Download/clone the repo from Github to your root plugin folder.
Lastly, copy the Code Snippet into your main plugin file. Click Done to finish.
In the end, you will find your plugin in the Plugins section.
You have added a free plugin!
Congratulations 🎉 the plugin has been successfully added to Appsero. Read more about the Appsero Client documentation
Lastly, you can read the Push to Deploy documentation to deploy your plugin directly from your command line.
