Ideally all open source Wordpress plugins could be hosted at
Wordpress.org. Unfortunately, that is
not the case (not yet anyway) and publishing your own plugins can be a pain. This plugin solves
that problem by allowing plugin developers to showcase all their plugins just by dropping them into a folder.
Plugin Showcase works much the same as the
Wordpress.org plugin directory. It looks through the given folder,
parses any 'readme.txt' files and PHP files containing meta data in the header, and returns a neat array of
all the meta data.
The readme.txt files must conform to
Wordpress.org's Readme Standard
and can be validated using
Wordpress.org's Readme Validator.