plugin will not offer update even though a new version is available

Question

I made a plugin, made revisions to it, and commited it again, yet in the admin area under plugins, I do not see under my plugin that an update is available.

So I had, say, version 1.2.0 , and now I made a new version 1.9.0 and I commited it, and on the wordpress site if you click the download button you WILL get the 1.9.0 version, but people that already have version 1.2.0 installed won't see an update option.

Also, on the wordpress site, it always says "Download version 1.0", even though the current version is 1.9.5 (that's what it says in the readme.txt under the stable tag)

How to fix this?

Answer 1

Changing the version number in your readme does not update the version with wordpress.org as an update. The plugins page is looking at this and not the tags in the repo. Take a look at 'tagging a new version' here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/about/svn/ - tag your new version and then give it some time. This will notify users of the update the next time their install checks for updates.