Custom wordpress.org plugin download list

functions.php

<?php

/*
*  get_my_plugin_downloads
*
*  This function will return an array of plugin download information
*
*  @type	function
*  @date	31/3/17
*  @since	5.5.10
*
*  @param	$slug (string)
*  @return	(array)
*/

function get_my_plugin_downloads( $slug = '' ) {
	
	
	// vars
	$plugin = array(
		'version'	=> 0,
		'download'	=> '',
		'tags'		=> array()
	);
	$url = 'http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/' . $slug;
	
	
	// connect
	$request = wp_remote_post( $url );
	
	
	// success
	if( !is_wp_error($request) || wp_remote_retrieve_response_code($request) === 200) {
    	
        // unserialize
        $obj = @unserialize($request['body']);
		
		
		// version
		$plugin['version'] = $obj->version;
		$plugin['url'] = 'https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/'.$slug.'.zip';
		
		
		// tags
		preg_match_all('/<h4>(.+?)<\/h4>/', $obj->sections['changelog'], $matches);
		
		
		// add tags
		if( isset($matches[1]) ) {
			
			foreach( $matches[1] as $tag ) {
				
				$plugin['tags'][] = array(
					'version'	=> $tag,
					'url'		=> str_replace('.zip', '.'.$tag.'.zip', $plugin['url'])
				); 
				
			}
			
		}
		
    }
	
	
	// return
	return $plugin;
	
}

?>

page-template.php

<?php

$plugin = get_my_plugin_downloads('advanced-custom-fields');

?>
<h2>Current Version</h2>
<ul>
	<li><?php echo $plugin['version']; ?> - <a href="<?php echo $plugin['url']; ?>">download</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Other Versions</h2>
<ul>
	<?php foreach( $plugin['tags'] as $tag ): ?>
		<li><?php echo $tag['version']; ?> - <a href="<?php echo $tag['url']; ?>">download</a></li>
	<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

Hi WP devs,

Please find above a solution to display a list of downloadable 'plugin versions' on your website.
This solution is needed while the new wordpress.org plugin repo no longer shows a list of plugin tags.
You can find a ticket regarding this issue here: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2365

Instructions

Using the above solution is simple:

1. Copy the get_my_plugin_downloads() function into your functions.php file
2. Create a page template and use the function as shown in the example above

Notes

The above code finds available 'tags' by looking at the readme.txt 'changelog'. This may result in returning tags that may not exist in the plugin svn repo. This could be improved by looking at the actual repo folder HTML page and using regex to find tags, however, this simple solution seems to work well.

I have a working example of this code on the ACF website here: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/downloads/

Please let me know if you have any issues or can improve on the code.

Thanks
Elliot

@elliotcondon

Thanks for sharing the code.