Upon publishing, i have noticed that the plugin’s description is stuck to a temporary description i have made before, instead of the actual description that has been made for it. that description is a simple one sentence, therefore it doesn’t help explain what you can do in the plugin (“An Intellij Plugin for better navigation in files”)
I have tried for many hours, to be exact, 6 hours in total, in the span of a few days trying to debug why the plugin won’t display the new description.
Nothing has worked, except for changing the plugin’s ID.
Cleaning caches does nothing. Changing other attribiutes in the plugin.xml file, such as the name tag DOES work, but the description tag, however, just does not do anything. the .zip file shows the new description, however when using the plugin, it still shows the old description.
I would want to believe that the issue is only a visual bug from my pc, but the marketplace itself doesn’t show the updated description. as well as a review suggesting that there is not actual description
The description is dictated by the latest publicly approved and unhidden release’s plugin.xml.
From your explanation I’m unsure if you already tried releasing a new plugin version which’s plugin.xml contains the updated description. If not, start there and wait for it to be approved.
Okay I downloaded your plugin’s zip and inspected the plugin.xml. Comparing it to mine… I suppose the <h> tags might not be supported for plugin descriptions.
I changed the description itself countless times. But that didn’t update it.
Something else to note is that at the very start the description was displayed correctly on the sandbox ide, however a day since i initially changed the description, the description has defaulted to the old one.
Maybe there are some html tags that not supported for marketplace. You could try to simplify the plugin description html or use markdown instead in description.
FYI: I thought at least html tag such as “b, br, li” should work fine in plugin description.
As far as I’m aware even the snadbox will keep showing the description of the latest approved release not your sandbox version.
Try to upload it and get it approved. Otherwise you won’t see this. You might see it on the marketplace in your dashboard immidiatelly even before approval - must check though. I’m sure you won’t see it in the sandbox.