Deployer App Pushes Plugins from GitHub to WordPress.org

Arūnas Liuiza, like many other WordPress developers, prefers to develop his plugins on GitHub, thanks to the collaborative tools for issue tracking, merging, and pull requests. Hosting and developing open source projects on GitHub is much easier than trying to get any participation from the community via a plugin’s Subversion repo on WordPress.org. For these reasons Liuiza decided to create Deployer, a service that allows plugin developers to publish plugins to the WordPress.org Plugin Directory directly from GitHub, without using Subversion at all. He first presented the app at WordCamp Lithuania in September 2015, but hasn’t yet given it much promotion. “I wanted to streamline the process of publishing plugins from GitHub to WordPress.org,” Liuiza said. “I have more than 10 plugins in the repository, so I want to do things fast and easily.” Last July we covered a similar service called Ship, which offered a hassle free approach to shipping plugins directly from GitHub to WordPress.org. Liuiza, with 10 plugins to maintain, was initially excited about Ship but found there were several drawbacks. “First, Ship required pretty wide access to my GitHub account,” he said. “GitHub does not #wordpress #smallbusiness #entrepreneur

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