Author Email in plugin data

Just writing my first plugin and I realized that there’s no ‘Author Email’ field among the plugin data properties. I think there should be one. Not every user of WP has a personal webpage. I’d rather have an ‘Author Email’ field than the current ‘Author URI’ field. Or at least have both.

As a work around, I replaced the code on line 124 in plugin.php with this:

if ( ! empty($plugin_data[‘AuthorURI’]) ) {
if ( strpos($author_uri, ‘@’) > -1 ) {
$plugin_data[‘Author’] = ‘‘ . $plugin_data[‘Author’] . ‘‘;
} else {
$plugin_data[‘Author’] = ‘‘ . $plugin_data[‘Author’] . ‘‘;
}
}

That is, if there’s a ‘@’ in the AuthorURI, then treat it as an email. Technically, an email is a kind of URI too. 🙂