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Boone Gorges edited this page Aug 13, 2024 · 7 revisions
  • Version bumps:
    • pressforward.php Version
    • constants.php PF_VERSION
    • package.json "version"
  • Determine and bump minimum WP version in readme.txt
  • Changelog entry in readme.txt
  • NPM build: npm run build
  • Composer build: composer install --no-dev
  • Make .pot: wp i18n make-pot . languages/pressforward.pot. Important to do this after npm run build so that the line numbers match for JS files.
  • Minify core assets: gulp minify-core-js && gulp minify-core-css. Minifying Libraries can break bootstrap styling.
  • Copy to svn trunk checkout
  • svn st and check for deleted/new items
  • svn ci
  • Test trunk build from https://wordpress.org/plugins/pressforward/advanced/
  • Bump Stable tag in readme.txt
  • Sync this change to svn trunk
  • svn cp trunk tags/[tag]
  • svn ci to finish wordpress.org release
  • Create Git tag
  • Create Git release
  • Merge Git branches to bleeding version and/or create new branches, as necessary
  • Close GitHub milestone

The PressForward Plugin is developed and maintained by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University as part of the PressForward Project, generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Our developers include Aram Zucker-Scharff, Boone B. Gorges, and Jeremy Boggs. PressForward is free to use and modify under an AGPLv3 license.

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