Title: plugin readme file problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# plugin readme file problem

 *  [Sebastian Krysmanski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manski/)
 * (@manski)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-readme-file-problem/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve created a new plugin ([http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogtext/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogtext/)),
   and created a readme file – however, it doesn’t seem to be being picked up and
   none of the fields and descriptions I’ve written (including the all important
   installation section) are there! Also all tabs show the same content (except 
   for the stats tab).
 * I’ve validated my readme file and it says that it was ok (except for some missing
   headers that I don’t use), am I missing something?
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 * Thanks,
    Manski

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 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-readme-file-problem/#post-1984254)
 * Give it a while (a few hours, up to a day or two). Sometimes it’s just a Plugin
   Repository server-cache issue.
 * Your readme.txt in trunk looks fine, as does the readme.txt file in \tags.9.0c
 *  Thread Starter [Sebastian Krysmanski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manski/)
 * (@manski)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-readme-file-problem/#post-1984259)
 * Ok. I was just confused because it already took the tag (0.9.0c), the title (
   which was “blogtext” before I uploaded the readme file), and the sections (had
   only “Description” before I uploaded the readme file).
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-readme-file-problem/#post-1984264)
 * Make sure you update \trunk\readme.txt _last_.
 * The way the parser works, it starts reading \trunk\readme.txt. Once it gets to
   the “Stable Tag” header tag, it reads the value, and then continues parsing from
   the tag specified.
 * So, when you update your Plugin to, e.g. 1.0:
 * 1) Create \tags\1.0\
    2) Add Plugin files to \tags\1.0 3) Update \trunk\readme.
   txt to indicate “Stable Tag: 1.0”
 * Then things should work a bit more smoothly.
 *  Thread Starter [Sebastian Krysmanski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manski/)
 * (@manski)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-readme-file-problem/#post-1984269)
 * Sounds quite counter-intuitive. Also this breaks how Subversion works (where 
   you first update the trunk and then create a tag). If this is true, it seems 
   that this is a bug.
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-readme-file-problem/#post-1984278)
 * No, you use trunk for development, keeping your actual _Plugin files_ updated
   in trunk, _then_ tag when stable, _then_ update trunk\readme.txt to point to 
   the current stable version.
 *  Thread Starter [Sebastian Krysmanski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manski/)
 * (@manski)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-readme-file-problem/#post-1984280)
 * And then the readme in the “release tag” hasn’t the correct version in it. Doesn’t
   sound right to me.
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-readme-file-problem/#post-1984289)
 * Just commit readme.txt separately, if that makes it easier for you.
 * In the end, though, what matters is that, when the parser hits “Stable Tag” in\
   trunk\readme.txt, files actually exist in the specified tag directory.
 *  Thread Starter [Sebastian Krysmanski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manski/)
 * (@manski)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-readme-file-problem/#post-1984292)
 * Yap, that worked. However, still this is something new users should be told about(
   for example in the FAQ: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/faq/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/faq/)).

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