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Pressship

Pressship is a CLI and agent runbook for preparing, validating, submitting, releasing, inspecting, and demoing WordPress.org plugins.

The fastest way to use it with an agent is to hand the agent a bounded prompt that points at the live runbook:

Fetch https://pressship.org/ai and use Pressship to prepare this WordPress plugin for publishing. Run verify and a publish dry run first. Ask before uploading, committing to SVN, or changing git.

The same workflow is also available from the terminal:

npx pressship login
npx pressship publish ./my-plugin --dry-run
npx pressship publish ./my-plugin

Pressship keeps WordPress.org-specific behavior explicit while giving people and agents the same modernized publishing path.

Prompt Examples​

Use these prompts as starting points when you want an agent to work inside a plugin repository.

Inspect Before Publishing​

Fetch https://pressship.org/ai and inspect this WordPress plugin with Pressship. Run whoami, status, info, verify, and a publish dry run. Summarize the selected route, Plugin Check results, package size, and any blockers. Do not upload anything or change git.

Prepare A New Submission​

Fetch https://pressship.org/ai and prepare this plugin for a first WordPress.org submission. Run verify and a publish dry run, explain what would be uploaded, list any readme or Plugin Check issues, and stop before the real upload.

Release An Approved Plugin​

Fetch https://pressship.org/ai and prepare an approved WordPress.org plugin release. Check the current plugin state, run verify, run a release dry run, report the SVN trunk and tag actions Pressship would take, and ask before committing to SVN.

Use Studio To Fix Plugin Check​

Fetch https://pressship.org/ai, open Pressship Studio for this plugin, run Plugin Check, and use the saved findings to propose a minimal fix plan. Do not edit files, commit git changes, upload, or release until I approve the plan.

For reusable agent setup, install the Agent Publishing Skill. For the human-readable runbook, open the agent endpoint.

What Pressship Handles​

  • Browser-based WordPress.org login and local session storage.
  • Plugin discovery from WordPress plugin headers.
  • readme.txt parsing and WordPress.org readme validation.
  • Managed WordPress.org Plugin Check setup.
  • Standalone verify checks before packaging or publishing.
  • WordPress-installable zip generation.
  • Smart publish routing between review submission and SVN release.
  • Explicit submit and release commands for WordPress.org workflows.
  • get and ls commands for WordPress.org plugin SVN and account visibility.
  • Subversion detection with guided install paths when svn is missing.
  • info, status, and demo commands for inspection and local testing.

Pressship does not replace WordPress.org review or SVN. It automates the steps around them.