Prepare for packagist.org publishing

.distignore

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 .distignore
 .editorconfig
 .git
+.gitattributes
 .github
 .gitignore
 composer.json

.gitattributes

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+.distignore export-ignore
+.github export-ignore
+.gitattributes export-ignore
+.gitignore export-ignore
+composer.lock export-ignore
+docker-compose.yml export-ignore
+package-lock.lock export-ignore
+phpcs.xml export-ignore

README.md

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 Stable versions are available on the [Hypothesis plugin page on WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/).
 
-## Install Directions
+## Install this plugin
+
+### Via composer
+
+This plugin can be installed with composer, from the standard package registry (packagist.org)
+
+    composer require hypothesis/hypothesis-wp-plugin
+
+### Via WordPress plugins directory
 
 1. Visit your WordPress plugins page (/wp-admin/plugins.php)
 2. Click the Add New button
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 3. **Merge** the changes into the `main` branch[^1]. We use [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/#semantic-versioning-200).
 4. **Create a tag** pointing at the version-change commit and generate a **new GitHub release** (details follow). Publishing a GitHub release will kick off a GitHub Action that will publish the plugin to wordpress.org
 
+> [!NOTE]
+> The package will be automatically published in packagist.org just by pushing the new git tag.
+
 ### Creating a GitHub release
 
 Create a [new GitHub release](https://github.com/hypothesis/wp-hypothesis/releases/new/) with these values:

composer.json

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 {
-    "name": "hypothesis/hypothesis",
+    "name": "hypothesis/hypothesis-wp-plugin",
     "description": "An open platform for the collaborative evaluation of knowledge.",
     "homepage": "https://github.com/hypothesis/wp-hypothesis",
     "support": {