WordPress is a most popular blogging platform, and all wordpress developers want their plugin/theme to be in WordPress Extend Directory.
There are thousands of developers who design wordpress themes and plugins, but wordpress has number of restrictions if they want to upload their creation to the WordPress Extend directory, due to which many developers can’t post their products into it. This article will give a strong benefit to such developers.
Here are the key points you should remember while developing a plugin. You will become eligible to enter into the WordPress Directory, after implementing these steps into your product.
1. All the code in the plugin files must be unique. Files containing copied codes from other plugins/themes are not acceptable.
2. All the code in the plugin files must be visible to everyone. No obfuscated or encoded text is permitted anywhere in the product.
3. All Code must be virus free and doesn’t contain any malicious code in it
4. Adding or embedding ads in the user’s admin area is not permitted.
5. Selling the Ad-Space in the user’s admin area is not allowed.
6. Tracking users is not permitted
7. Use of iFrame is restricted to WordPress
8. If footer note (Attribution) is being added to the user’s website, then it must be optional and visible to the users. So that if they don’t want to show the footer text, they can disable it.
9. You must add the GPL License to the code.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
10. Product should be useful and user-friendly.
For all guidelines, please visit http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/guidelines/.
Happy Coding! 🙂
