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Alex Spurling
Alex Spurling

Reputation: 55864

Cannot publish chrome extension to the world

I have the following issue when attempting to publish a chrome extension. After having paid the $5 developer licence fee, I have been able to publish my extension to testers. However now it appears there is no way to publish the extension to the world. According to the documentation:

Publishing your app is easy—just click the "Publish" link next to your app in the dashboard. Or in the dashboard's edit page for your app, click the Publish button.

Note: To publish to the world after publishing to test accounts, you first need to unpublish the app.

My extension is currently published to test accounts:

When I click Unpublish (and after dismissing the warning message) I get this:

When I click Publish, I get this message:

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After clicking yes, however, you can see the status is still "Published to Testers":

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and also, you can see I still have 0 extensions published:

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I notice also that there is no "Publish" button in the edit page for my extension as it says there should be in the documentation.

What am I doing wrong? Please tell me I'm being stupid!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 414

Answers (1)

Rob W
Rob W

Reputation: 348992

Apparently, clicking on "Publish" from the main dashboard will publish the extension with the previous settings (testers-only: yes/no).

Follow these steps to publish an item after having published it to testers:

  1. Unpublish the item.
  2. Click on the "Edit" link (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/edit/.....)
  3. Scroll down to the bottom.
  4. Click on "Publish changes" (the right-most button).

Now, your item will be publicly visible instead of testers-only (within a couple of minutes).

Upvotes: 4

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