Comments on: Parse a WordPress Plugin’s README.txt With Regular Expressions https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/08/parse-a-wordpress-plugins-readme-txt-with-regular-expressions/ Useful Resources For Webmasters Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: Gwyneth Llewelyn https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/08/parse-a-wordpress-plugins-readme-txt-with-regular-expressions/#comment-19302 Wed, 11 May 2011 17:55:51 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2340#comment-19302 There is even a plugin that does this automatically: http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....me-parser/

That comes in handy for me, so I don’t need to manually edit my own plugin pages any longer :)

]]> By: Gwyneth Llewelyn https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/08/parse-a-wordpress-plugins-readme-txt-with-regular-expressions/#comment-19301 Wed, 11 May 2011 17:47:15 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2340#comment-19301 That’s so useful that I wonder if you didn’t do a plugin out of it! :) Really! One thing that pissed me off all the time is to have to deal with the manual formatting on my website every time the readme.txt changes, to keep the WordPress developers happy…

A shortcode to do everything automatically would just be awesome; I imagine it could even retrieve the latest readme.txt from trunk and deal with that automagically…

]]> By: designfloat.com https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/08/parse-a-wordpress-plugins-readme-txt-with-regular-expressions/#comment-8795 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:05:29 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2340#comment-8795 Parse a WordPress Plugin’s README.txt With Regular Expressions…

Using preg_replace, nl2br, and a couple of internal WordPress functions, you can parse a markdown-formatted README file into plain HTML for didplay….

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