Chapter 13: Distributing Your Plugin on WordPress.org
Once you have a version of your new plugin that is ready to be distributed to the masses, you need to decide whether you will join the official WordPress repository or self-publish it.
In most cases, the preferred option is to add your new extension to the official WordPress plugin repository. The official repository includes free hosting, built-in notification of new updates, and a powerful search engine that users can access on WordPress.org or from the Plugins section of their website's administration pages. Other benefits of hosting on the official repository include download statistics and the creation of a free forum to facilitate user support.
To qualify for this hosting, your work must be free and open source. It must also comply with the GNU General Public License, Version 2 (also known as GPL v2), a common open source software license that WordPress itself uses. This includes any code you wrote, along with any...
