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title: Update Script Wordpress.org Plugins
date: 2025-07-18T14:55:48Z
modified: 2026-09-22T19:51:44Z
permalink: "https://techarticles.co.uk/update-script-wordpress-org-plugins/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 5446
categories:
- Automation
- Blog
- Coding
- Plugins
- Wordpress
timestamp: 2026-09-22T19:51:44Z
tags:
- Automation
- Blog
- Coding
- Plugins
- Wordpress
---
One of the last parts of my workflow to automate has been SVN pushes to the WordPress.org repo, i still have two plugins on WordPress.org and they are [webhooks-for-bricks-forms](https://wordpress.org/plugins/webhook-for-bricks-forms) & [hooksure](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hooksure/) they both do similar things send form data over webhook.
Almost all my free plugins moving forward and now are served by GitHub and use my [UUPD](https://github.com/stingray82/uupd) [WordPress Updater Solution](http://uupd.uk "WordPress Updater Solution") to serve updates right in your dashboard for free.
I still have to maintain and work on these plugins although there basic plugins and functionality remains reasonably stable I have up until recently been doing this manually either on the command line or via [tortisesvn](https://tortoisesvn.net/), as I needed to update both I decided to spend the time getting a little automation going via bat scripts. I already have one to push updates from GitHub to the SVN trunk so I need to concentrate on publishing them.
Similar to my normal free plugin release script I wanted to this to ask me for a version number update the stable tag in the readme and the php to match the added release and I want it to commit the trunk and then tag a new release with the inputted version number
The working code is below:
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
REM === Configuration ===
set "WORKING_COPY_PATH=C:\Users\Nathan\svn\webhook-for-bricks-forms"
set "TRUNK_PATH=%WORKING_COPY_PATH%\trunk"
set "PLUGIN_FILE=%TRUNK_PATH%\webhook-for-bricks-forms.php"
set "README_FILE=%TRUNK_PATH%\readme.txt"
set "REPO_URL=https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/webhook-for-bricks-forms"
REM === Extract plugin slug from REPO_URL ===
for %%A in ("%REPO_URL%") do (
set "PLUGIN_SLUG=%%~nxA"
)
REM === Prompt for version number ===
set /p VERSION="Enter the new version number (e.g. 1.4.2): "
if "%VERSION%"=="" (
echo Version number is required. Aborting.
goto end
)
echo === Updating version numbers with PowerShell ===
REM --- Update PHP version line ---
powershell -Command "(Get-Content '%PLUGIN_FILE%') -replace '^(Version:\s*).+$', '${1}%VERSION%' | Set-Content '%PLUGIN_FILE%'" || (
echo Failed to update version in PHP file. Aborting.
goto end
)
REM --- Update Stable tag in readme.txt ---
powershell -Command "(Get-Content '%README_FILE%') -replace '^(Stable tag:\s*).+$', '${1}%VERSION%' | Set-Content '%README_FILE%'" || (
echo Failed to update version in readme.txt. Aborting.
goto end
)
echo === Committing changes in trunk ===
cd /d "%TRUNK_PATH%"
svn add --force . >nul
svn commit -m "Preparing for version %VERSION% release"
if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 (
echo Commit failed. Aborting.
goto end
)
echo === Tagging version %VERSION% ===
cd /d "%WORKING_COPY_PATH%"
svn copy "%TRUNK_PATH%" "%REPO_URL%/tags/%VERSION%" -m "Tagging version %VERSION% for release"
if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 (
echo Tagging failed. Aborting.
goto end
)
echo === Refreshing plugin page for %PLUGIN_SLUG% ===
start https://wordpress.org/plugins/%PLUGIN_SLUG%/?refresh
echo === Release %VERSION% completed successfully! 🚀 ===
:end
pause
endlocal
```
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
REM === Configuration ===
set "WORKING_COPY_PATH=C:\Users\Nathan\svn\webhook-for-bricks-forms"
set "TRUNK_PATH=%WORKING_COPY_PATH%\trunk"
set "PLUGIN_FILE=%TRUNK_PATH%\webhook-for-bricks-forms.php"
set "README_FILE=%TRUNK_PATH%\readme.txt"
set "REPO_URL=https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/webhook-for-bricks-forms"
REM === Extract plugin slug from REPO_URL ===
for %%A in ("%REPO_URL%") do (
set "PLUGIN_SLUG=%%~nxA"
)
REM === Prompt for version number ===
set /p VERSION="Enter the new version number (e.g. 1.4.2): "
if "%VERSION%"=="" (
echo Version number is required. Aborting.
goto end
)
echo === Updating version numbers with PowerShell ===
REM --- Update PHP version line ---
powershell -Command "(Get-Content '%PLUGIN_FILE%') -replace '^(Version:\s*).+$', '${1}%VERSION%' | Set-Content '%PLUGIN_FILE%'" || (
echo Failed to update version in PHP file. Aborting.
goto end
)
REM --- Update Stable tag in readme.txt ---
powershell -Command "(Get-Content '%README_FILE%') -replace '^(Stable tag:\s*).+$', '${1}%VERSION%' | Set-Content '%README_FILE%'" || (
echo Failed to update version in readme.txt. Aborting.
goto end
)
echo === Committing changes in trunk ===
cd /d "%TRUNK_PATH%"
svn add --force . >nul
svn commit -m "Preparing for version %VERSION% release"
if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 (
echo Commit failed. Aborting.
goto end
)
echo === Tagging version %VERSION% ===
cd /d "%WORKING_COPY_PATH%"
svn copy "%TRUNK_PATH%" "%REPO_URL%/tags/%VERSION%" -m "Tagging version %VERSION% for release"
if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 (
echo Tagging failed. Aborting.
goto end
)
echo === Refreshing plugin page for %PLUGIN_SLUG% ===
start https://wordpress.org/plugins/%PLUGIN_SLUG%/?refresh
echo === Release %VERSION% completed successfully! 🚀 ===
:end
pause
endlocal
```BAT (Batchfile)
