CI: build an installable plugin zip on tag push (fixes broken manual installs)#9
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Fixes emdash-cms#6: the GitHub "Download ZIP" of the repo nests the plugin under wp-emdash-main/plugins/, which WordPress' Upload Plugin rejects. This workflow builds emdash-exporter.zip with the plugin folder at the archive root, attaches it to a release on every v* tag, runs a PHP syntax check first, and uploads the zip as an artifact on pull requests for testing.
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What does this PR do?
Fixes #6.
Users who download the repo zip from GitHub get
wp-emdash-main/plugins/emdash-exporter/...— WordPress' Upload Plugin rejects that structure with no useful error, which is exactly the failure reported in #6 (the workaround in the comments is to re-zip the plugin folder manually).This adds a small GitHub Actions workflow that removes the manual step:
v*tag push: buildsemdash-exporter.zipwith the plugin folder at the archive root (the structure WordPress expects) and attaches it to a GitHub release with generated notes. The release page becomes the canonical "download the plugin here" link.php -lover all plugin files first, so a release can't ship a file with a syntax error.No changes to the plugin itself.
Carved out of #8 so it can be reviewed and merged independently — if this lands first, #8 rebases cleanly (I'll drop the duplicate file from #8).
Type of change
Testing
The zip built by the same commands (
cd plugins && zip -r ../emdash-exporter.zip emdash-exporter) has been installed repeatedly on live WordPress sites via Plugins → Add New → Upload during the migration testing for #8.AI-generated code disclosure