Releasery – Self-Updating Changelog Page

Description

Release your plugin, and your changelog page updates itself. Releasery turns the changelog you already write into a clean, always-current page on your site: newest first, no copy-paste.

What makes Releasery different

• GitHub Releases as the source of truth. Releasery reads readme.txt at your latest GitHub Release. Each version gets its exact release date, and unreleased work in your repository never shows early. Private repositories work too, with a read-only token stored encrypted.
• Updates the moment you ship. Add a GitHub webhook and the page refreshes as soon as a release is published. Or push each release from your own GitHub Action, so the changelog is only published after your WordPress.org deploy succeeds.
• Review before it goes live. Keep new versions as drafts, lock any entry you edit by hand (“Keep my edits”), and trust that trashed entries never come back and that Releasery never publishes or un-publishes an entry you have already handled.
• Knows where your changelog is shown. Each source lists the pages displaying it (block, shortcode or Elementor), and “Create page” builds one for you in a single click.
• Reads real-world changelogs. It understands * Fixed - …, Added: …, sub-headings like “Bugfixes”, “Release date:” lines and dates in most formats. That covers changelogs written in the styles of popular plugins such as WooCommerce and Yoast SEO.

Connect where your releases live, add the Releasery block (or shortcode) to a page, and every new version appears there by itself.

Sources

• WordPress.org plugin: reads the public changelog of any plugin on WordPress.org. No account or token needed.
• GitHub repository: reads readme.txt at your latest GitHub Release, with exact release dates. Works with public repositories and, with a read-only token, private ones.
• GitHub Actions (optional): accept entries pushed by a workflow, signed with a secret.

Why Releasery

• Lightweight: no build tools, no external scripts, one small stylesheet that follows your theme.
• Newest first, always: ordered by release date, then by version number.
• Understands real changelogs: * Fixed - …, Added: …, sub-headings like “Bugfixes”, release-date lines, and dates in most formats.
• You stay in control: publish right away or keep new versions as drafts; edit any entry and tick “Keep my edits” so a sync never overwrites it.
• Safe: tokens are stored encrypted, webhooks and pushes are signature-checked, and nothing is sent anywhere except the requests described below.
• Works everywhere: block for the block editor, [releasery] shortcode for the classic editor, Elementor and other builders.

Show it on a page

Add the Releasery Changelog block, or the shortcode:

[releasery] (all products)
[releasery product="my-plugin"] (one product)
[releasery product="my-plugin,my-plugin-pro" per_page="15"]

External services

Releasery connects to these services only for sources you add, and only from your server (never from visitors’ browsers).

WordPress.org Plugin API (api.wordpress.org)
Used for “WordPress.org plugin” sources to read the plugin’s public name, version, last-updated date and changelog. Sent: the plugin slug you entered. When: on each scheduled check and when you click “Check now”.
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GitHub REST API (api.github.com)
Used for “GitHub repository” sources to list published releases and read the readme file at the latest release. Sent: the repository name, the readme path and, if you added one, your access token. When: on each scheduled check, when you click “Check now”, and after a GitHub webhook tells your site a release was published.
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No data about your site’s visitors is sent to either service.