- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Won a Competition
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
Hello fellas
how wp plugins are normally packaged on CC ?
- download.zip = plugin.zip so it can be uploaded “as is” to wordpress
- download.zip =
install.txt
psds
otherStuff
plugin.zip = wp plugin
- Author was Featured
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Exclusive Author
- Europe
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Referred between 200 and 499 users
I use this format:
download.zip =
readme.txt
help
psds
otherStuff
plugin.zip = wp plugin
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Won a Competition
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
i used the latter in the end. thx
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- Author was Featured
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- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
there should be a standard to cut down on the bad reviews / useless comment threads started by the “Invalid plugin header” error which occures when a download zip is uploaded as a plugin and it contains a different structure.
- Australia
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Interviewed on the Envato Notes blog
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars
May I make a very very obvious comment.
Why don’t Envato, supply a download folder. With all hierarchal folders within it.
That way new authors, can just pop into each folder the required files, rename the master folder and upload when they publish…
Could make life so much simpler.
Ok theres tons of upload destinations, but I am sure there is a preset format.
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- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Won a Competition
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
TylerQuinn saidyeah, that was my concern
there should be a standard to cut down on the bad reviews / useless comment threads started by the “Invalid plugin header” error which occures when a download zip is uploaded as a plugin and it contains a different structure.
i tought about including a fake “plugin.php” into download.zip root folder which will show a warning message and instruction for how to proper install the component in the plugins admin page if download.zip is directly uploaded to wordpress.
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Attended a Community Meetup
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Item was Featured
- Most Wanted Bounty Winner
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
TylerQuinn said
there should be a standard to cut down on the bad reviews / useless comment threads started by the “Invalid plugin header” error which occures when a download zip is uploaded as a plugin and it contains a different structure.
That’s a HUGE issue for us! We have at least one support request per day regarding that. I started naming files plugin-name-UNZIP_BEFORE_UPLOAD.zip but it’s not helping a lot. I don’t know what to do 
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
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- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Italy
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
- Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars
TylerQuinn said
there should be a standard to cut down on the bad reviews / useless comment threads started by the “Invalid plugin header” error which occures when a download zip is uploaded as a plugin and it contains a different structure.
The same thing happens with wordpress themes.
An easy solution would be if we could provide a documentation online and put the plugin/theme only in the package.
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Most Wanted Bounty Winner
- Author was Featured
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
WebFactory said
TylerQuinn saidThat’s a HUGE issue for us! We have at least one support request per day regarding that. I started naming files plugin-name-UNZIP_BEFORE_UPLOAD.zip but it’s not helping a lot. I don’t know what to do
there should be a standard to cut down on the bad reviews / useless comment threads started by the “Invalid plugin header” error which occures when a download zip is uploaded as a plugin and it contains a different structure.
Tell me about it! And then of course the first thing they do is give it 1 star and make 100 comments about how the plugin is broken and the world is over lol…
I try to add the information to all of the FAQ sections but no one really seems to read them. There should be a links or subtext somewhere on the download page to read the FAQs before posting comments / reviews / asking for help.
- Sold between 250 000 and 1 000 000 dollars
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- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Referred between 1000 and 1999 users
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
Personally I think download.zip = plugin.zip is the way to go. I don’t see a need for PSDs most of the time, so the only “extra” in there is the documentation. Savvy users can just remove the documentation files, while the users that don’t even check what they’re uploading won’t have any issues. win-win 
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