uupd/Example Deploy.bat/README-deploy.md

🔄 Plugin Deployment Script

 

This project contains a deploy.bat script that automates the build, packaging, and deployment of a WordPress plugin to either:

• 📦 GitHub Releases

• 🔐 Private Server (optional)

• 🧾 Static JSON/CDN-based delivery using the UUPD Updater

 

📁 Files Used

• plugin.php — Your main plugin file

• static.txt — Readme content (description, installation, etc.)

• changelog.txt — Changelog used in the readme and release notes

• generate_index.php — Creates index.json for UUPD to read

🛠 What It Does

• Extracts plugin metadata from headers

• Builds a readme.txt combining static content and changelog

• Commits and pushes to GitHub (if needed)

• Generates a .zip of the plugin

• Deploys release to GitHub or private folder

• Generates index.json + info.txt for static/CDN delivery

• Uploads banners and icons (if placed in uupd/ folder)

 

📤 Example Output

After running the script:

example-plugin/
├── readme.txt
├── example-plugin.php
├── ...
└── uupd/
    ├── index.json
    ├── banner-772x250.png
    ├── icon-128.png
    ├── info.txt

 

✅ Requirements

• PHP (CLI)

• Git

• 7-Zip (for Windows ZIP creation)

• GitHub personal access token with repo scope (saved to a .txt file)

 

💡 Tip

You can use GitHub Pages or raw.githubusercontent.com to serve index.json directly for UUPD:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yourusername/example-plugin/main/uupd/index.json

 

Use this as the server parameter when configuring the UUPD Updater in your plugin.

🧪 Status

Actively used for real plugin deployments. Works with GitHub + static/CDN-based delivery via UUPD.