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A Github Action for deploying a WordPress plugin to the WordPress.org plugin repository with quite a few comments explaining each piece.
# The name of the Github Action that displays in github.com/<username>/<repo>/actions
name: Deploy to WordPress.org Repository
# Here we can define the events "on" which the action should be triggered.
on:
# Since we want to publish new versions of our plugin, we only want this action to
# run when publishing a new release.
#
# The released version of the plugin will then be deployed to the repository.
#
# This allows us to run and manage plugin releases from a single location.
release:
# run only when a new release is published, but not when it's classified as a pre-release.
types: [released]
# A list of jobs involved in this workflow.
jobs:
# A unique job identifier.
#
# Github Actions can have multiple jobs and each can be referenced by its name.
# However, we only need to run a few steps here and they can be handled in a single job.
deploy_to_wp_repository:
# The proper name for the job being run.
name: Deploy to WP.org
# The environment this job should run on. In the context of WordPress, ubuntu-latest is
# pretty typical. Since we are only interacting with git and subversion, Ubuntu is perfect
# for this.
#
# Github does offer other platforms if you need them: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idruns-on
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
# Every job has a specific set of steps that it goes through to do its "work".
#
# Each step has a two key elements:
# • Name
# • a "run" command (an arbitrary CLI command to execute) OR a "uses" command that pulls in and executes a 3rd party action.
steps:
# Most workflows begin by checking out the repository into the workflow filesystem.
#
# This is just like cloning a repository except it only checks out the specific commit
# the job is executed for. In our case here, the commit that the release is attached to.
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v2
# Optional: If your plugin is using composer dependencies, we want to include them
# WITHOUT the dev dependencies.
- name: Build
run: composer install -o --no-dev
# Using 10up's deployment action, we deploy our plugin to the WordPress repository.
# You can view that action here: https://github.com/10up/action-wordpress-plugin-deploy
- name: WordPress Plugin Deploy
# You can add unique ids to specific steps if you want to reference their output later in the workflow.
#
# Here, this unique identifier lets us use the output from the action to get the zip-path later.
id: deploy
# The use statement lets us pull in the work done by 10up to deploy the plugin to the WordPress repository.
uses: 10up/action-wordpress-plugin-deploy@stable
# Steps can also provide arguments, so this configures 10up's action to also generate a zip file.
with:
generate-zip: true
# Steps can also set environment variables which can be configured in the Github settings for the
# repository. Here, we are using action secrets SVN_USERNAME, SVN_PASSWORD, and PLUGIN_SLUG which
# authenticate with WordPress and lets the action deploy our plugin to the repository.
#
# To learn more about setting and using secrets with Github Actions, check out: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/encrypted-secrets?tool=webui#about-encrypted-secrets
env:
SVN_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SVN_USERNAME }}
SVN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SVN_PASSWORD }}
SLUG: ${{ secrets.PLUGIN_SLUG }}
# After the deploy, we also want to create a zip and upload it to the release on Github. We don't want
# users to have to go to the repository to find our plugin :).
- name: Upload release asset
uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
env:
# Note, this is an exception to action secrets: GH_TOKEN is always available and provides access to
# the current repository this action runs in.
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
with:
# Get the URL for uploading assets to the current release.
upload_url: ${{ github.event.release.upload_url }}
# Provide the path to the file generated in the previous step using the output.
asset_path: ${{ steps.deploy.outputs.zip-path }}
# Provide what the file should be named when attached to the release (plugin-name.zip)
asset_name: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}.zip
# Provide the file type.
asset_content_type: application/zip
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