Title: Plugin README Parser
Author: Joe
Published: <strong>October 20, 2010</strong>
Last modified: March 14, 2025

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# wp-readme-parser

 By [Joe](https://profiles.wordpress.org/morehawes/)

 * [Details](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-readme-parser/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-readme-parser/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-readme-parser/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-readme-parser/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of August 14, 2025 and is not available for download.
Reason: Security Issue.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great plugin!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-39509/)󠁿

 [flowdee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flowdee/) September 19, 2024 1 reply

Works fine again!Thanks for keeping it up-to-date

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### 󠀁[Very Handy!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-handy-295/)󠁿

 [Joe](https://profiles.wordpress.org/morehawes/) January 10, 2024

I use the plugin to display a the changelog from my plugin readme on my site’s changes
page very handy to only have one changelog to update! Thanks, Joe

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### 󠀁[A must for WordPress plugin developers, amateurs or pros!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-must-for-wordpress-plugin-developers-amateurs-or-pros/)󠁿

 [Gwyneth Llewelyn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gwynethllewelyn/) June 22, 2021

Sooner or later, if you develop WordPress plugins that are being offered here at
the Plugin Library, you will need this plugin — simply because it makes it so easy
to include those Markdown-based READMEs as part of your own website. Sooner or later,
someone will contact you with lots of questions about your own plugins, and you’ll
want to let them know, on your own website, what you have developed so far. Sure,
you can always do a copy & paste; sure, recent versions of WordPress are sort-of-
able to parse Markdown, so, strictly speaking, you could do everything manually.
But with the Plugin README Parser, everything happens automagically. No need to 
set a reminder to yourself to update your own pages on your site — this plugin will
automatically contact the Plugin Library and regenerate those pages based on the
latest and greatest version of the README. And, as a bonus, it even retrieves most
of the assets — such as images etc. — that are used by the README to illustrate,
for example, how your plugin installation works. This is not 100% trivial to do 
manually. It’s good to have a fully automated tool that does all the homework on
your behalf!

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-readme-parser/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Plugin README Parser” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Joe ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/morehawes/)
 *   [ David Artiss ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dartiss/)

“Plugin README Parser” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-readme-parser/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Plugin README Parser” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-readme-parser)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-readme-parser/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-readme-parser/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-readme-parser/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-readme-parser/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.15**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.7.5**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-readme-parser/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-readme-parser/),
   and [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-readme-parser/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-readme-parser)
 *  [Advanced View](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-readme-parser/advanced/)