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Transferring Your Plugin to a New Owner

Transferring Your Plugin to a New Owner

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While any plugin can have an unlimited number of committers and support reps, there is only one official owner of a plugin at any time. This is akin to how a post on WordPress can only have one official post author.

For Plugins With Under 10,000 Users

If you’re transferring your plugin to a new owner, there are two steps that must take place.

First, add the new user as a committer to the plugin:

  • go to https://wordpress.org/plugins/YOURPLUGIN/advanced and add their username in as a committer
  • update the readme.txt to add their userID as an author

Next, go to the Advanced tab and scroll down to the Danger Zone. There you will see a section for Transfer Your Plugin. Pick someone from the dropdown and click the button.

If there are no other committers, the plugin will not be available to be transferred, so you must do that first.