diff --git a/.distignore b/.distignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30128dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.distignore
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# A set of files you probably don't want in your WordPress.org distribution
+.distignore
+.editorconfig
+.git
+.gitignore
+.gitlab-ci.yml
+.travis.yml
+.DS_Store
+Thumbs.db
+behat.yml
+bin
+circle.yml
+composer.json
+composer.lock
+Gruntfile.js
+package.json
+phpunit.xml
+phpunit.xml.dist
+multisite.xml
+multisite.xml.dist
+phpcs.ruleset.xml
+LICENSE
+wp-cli.local.yml
+tests
+vendor
+node_modules
+*.sql
+*.tar.gz
+*.zip
+authors.txt
+composer.*
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-handler.yml b/.github/workflows/release-handler.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ccd91d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-handler.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+name: Release Handler
+
+# Action runs when a new release is published.
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+jobs:
+  release-new:
+    name: Issue new release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Build Plugin
+        run: |
+          composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
+          composer run build
+
+      - name: Create release archive
+        uses: montudor/action-zip@v0.1.0
+        with:
+          args: zip -X -r dist/footnotes-${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}.zip dist
+
+      - name: Upload archive as artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+            name: footnotes-${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+            path: dist/footnotes-${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}.zip
+            
+      - name: Upload archive to release
+        uses: JasonEtco/upload-to-release@master
+        with:
+          args: dist/footnotes-${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}.zip application/zip
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      #- name: Deploy release to Wordpress.org 
+      #  uses: 10up/action-wordpress-plugin-deploy@stable
+      #  with:
+      #    generate-zip: true
+      #  env:
+      #    SVN_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SVN_USERNAME }}
+      #    SVN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.SVN_PASSWORD }}
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index de46eb3..494168f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .phpdoc/
 vendor/
+dist/
 
 *.bak
 authors.txt
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f55c285..e24b6ac 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ Featured on [wpmudev](http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/12-surprisingly-useful-wor
   - You can run either across the entire project by adding the argument `--ignore=*/vendor/*` and targetting the file `./**/*.php`
     - You may have to enable double-wildcards in your console first (`shopt -s globstar`)
 
+## Building
+
+1. Run `_tools/build-stylesheets.sh -c` to concatenate stylesheets
+1. Manually minify the output files in `css/tmp/`, saving them as `.min.css` files
+  - The intention is to replace this with automated minification, meaning that
+    all of these steps can be rolled into a single `build` command.
+1. Run `_tools/build-stylesheets.sh -d` to deploy the minified files to `dist/`
+  - **this will delete any existing `dist/` folder**
+1. Run `composer run build` to move over the remaining files to `dist/`
+  - Currently, the files to include in a distribution are hard-coded in `_tools/build.sh`
+  - The intention is to replace this with a proper parsing of the `.distignore` file
+
 ## Updating Documentation
 
 1. Install [phpDocumentor](https://phpdoc.org/)
diff --git a/_tools/build-stylesheets.sh b/_tools/build-stylesheets.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..146db4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_tools/build-stylesheets.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Concatenates, minifies (TODO) and deploys stylesheets for distribution.
+#
+# 12 unified stylesheets are concatenated out of these files:
+# - `dev-common.css`
+# - `dev-tooltips.css`
+# - `dev-tooltips-alternative.css`
+# - `dev-layout-reference-container.css`
+# - `dev-layout-entry-content.css`
+# - `dev-layout-main-content.css`
+
+echo "Running $(dirname "$0")/build-stylesheets.sh"
+
+if [[ $1 == "-c" ]]; then
+
+	echo "Concatenating files and placing in \`css/tmp/\`."
+	mkdir -p ./css/tmp
+	cat ./css/dev-common.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-nottbrpl0.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,layout-reference-container}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-nottbrpl1.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,layout-entry-content}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-nottbrpl2.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,layout-main-content}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-nottbrpl3.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,tooltips}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-jqttbrpl0.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,tooltips,layout-reference-container}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-jqttbrpl1.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,tooltips,layout-entry-content}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-jqttbrpl2.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,tooltips,layout-main-content}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-jqttbrpl3.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,tooltips,tooltips-alternative}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-alttbrpl0.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,tooltips,tooltips-alternative,layout-reference-container}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-alttbrpl1.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,tooltips,tooltips-alternative,layout-entry-content}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-alttbrpl2.css
+	cat ./css/dev-{common,tooltips,tooltips-alternative,layout-main-content}.css > ./css/tmp/footnotes-alttbrpl3.css
+	cat ./css/settings.css > ./css/tmp/settings.css
+	echo "Done."
+
+elif [[ $1 == "-m" ]]; then
+
+	# TODO: this should automatically minifiy all files, outputting into `.min.css`
+	# files and deleting the original concatenated `.css` files in `css/tmp/`.
+	# Once that's done, we can change the `rm -r` command in the deploy step to
+	# `rmdir`, which will throw us an error if we have any minified files that
+	# haven't been moved over to `dist/css/` for whatever reason. As it currently
+	# stands, we have no error checking in place.
+	echo "Minifying files (TODO)..."
+	mkdir -p ./dist/css
+	for f in ./css/tmp/*.css;	do
+		filename=$(basename $f .css)
+		echo $filename
+		# TODO: automated minification
+		echo $filename Done
+	done
+	echo "Done."
+	
+elif [[ $1 == "-d" ]]; then
+
+	echo "Deploying minified files to \`dist/css/\`..."
+	rm -r ./dist
+	mkdir -p ./dist/css
+	for f in ./css/tmp/*.min.css;	do
+		filename=$(basename $f .css)
+		echo Moving $filename
+		mv $f ./dist/css
+		echo $filename Moved
+	done
+	echo "Deleting temporary files..."
+	rm -r ./css/tmp
+	echo "Done."
+	
+else
+
+	echo -e "Concatenates, minifies (TODO) and deploys stylesheets for distribution.\n"
+	echo -e "12 unified style sheets are concatenated out of these files:\n"
+	echo    "\`dev-common.css\`"
+	echo    "\`dev-tooltips.css\`"
+	echo    "\`dev-tooltips-alternative.css\`"
+	echo    "\`dev-layout-reference-container.css\`"
+	echo    "\`dev-layout-entry-content.css\`"
+	echo -e "\`dev-layout-main-content.css\`\n"
+	echo    "Command: \`-c\`: Concatenate \`dev-*\` CSS files into temporary directory."
+	echo    "Command: \`-m\`: Minify files (TODO)."
+	echo    "Command: \`-d\`: Deploy minified files to \`dist/css/\` and remove temporary files."
+	echo    "No command, \"--help\", or anything else: Output this help section."
+	
+fi
diff --git a/_tools/build.sh b/_tools/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..13a7def
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_tools/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Moves everything except the stylesheets over to `dist/`
+
+cp -r -t dist class/ js/ img/ languages/ templates/
+cp -t dist features.txt license.txt readme.txt footnotes.php includes.php wpml-config.xml customized-documentation-schema.txt customized-template-stack.txt CONTRIBUTING.md README.md SECURITY.md
+# TODO: once automatic minification is implemented, this should handle that.
+# For now, we shall have to assume that this command is being run on a repo. with
+# minimised stylesheet files already in `dist/css/`.
diff --git a/_tools/setup.sh b/_tools/setup.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 85ecd48..27eab43 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 {
+    "name": "markcheret/footnotes",
+    "description": "footnotes aims to be the all-in-one solution for displaying an automatically-generated list of references on your WordPress Page or Post.",
+    "license": "GPL-3.0-or-later",
+    "scripts": {
+        "build": "./_tools/build.sh",
+        "post-install-cmd": "./_tools/setup.sh"
+    },
     "require-dev": {
         "dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer": "^0.7.1",
         "wp-coding-standards/wpcs": "^2.3"
-    },
-    "scripts": {
-    	"post-install-cmd": [
-    		"bash _tools/setup.sh"
-    	]
     }
 }
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 9e0ee7c..ceae236 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "3a147d50695956de52f7cbf827b47830",
+    "content-hash": "0d4821c9dd1b0f00e1204cc22488f77f",
     "packages": [],
     "packages-dev": [
         {
diff --git a/development/customized-documentation-schema.txt b/customized-documentation-schema.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from development/customized-documentation-schema.txt
rename to customized-documentation-schema.txt
diff --git a/development/customized-template-stack.txt b/customized-template-stack.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from development/customized-template-stack.txt
rename to customized-template-stack.txt
diff --git a/development/csscat.sh b/development/csscat.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 1d5c453..0000000
--- a/development/csscat.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# 2021-02-15T1839+0100
-# Last modified: 2021-02-16T0155+0100
-# csscat.sh
-# Concatenates CSS files; deletes the concatenations after they’ve been minified.
-#
-# 12 unified style sheets are concatenated out of these files:
-# dev-common.css
-# dev-tooltips.css
-# dev-tooltips-alternative.css
-# dev-layout-reference-container.css
-# dev-layout-entry-content.css
-# dev-layout-main-content.css
-#
-echo "Running $(dirname "$0")/csscat.sh"
-if [[ $1 == "c" ]]; then
-echo "Concatenate in csscat/ for minification:"
-cd ../css
-mkdir csscat
-cat dev-common.css > csscat/footnotes-nottbrpl0.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-layout-reference-container.css > csscat/footnotes-nottbrpl1.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-layout-entry-content.css > csscat/footnotes-nottbrpl2.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-layout-main-content.css > csscat/footnotes-nottbrpl3.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-tooltips.css > csscat/footnotes-jqttbrpl0.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-tooltips.css dev-layout-reference-container.css > csscat/footnotes-jqttbrpl1.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-tooltips.css dev-layout-entry-content.css > csscat/footnotes-jqttbrpl2.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-tooltips.css dev-layout-main-content.css > csscat/footnotes-jqttbrpl3.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-tooltips.css dev-tooltips-alternative.css > csscat/footnotes-alttbrpl0.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-tooltips.css dev-tooltips-alternative.css dev-layout-reference-container.css > csscat/footnotes-alttbrpl1.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-tooltips.css dev-tooltips-alternative.css dev-layout-entry-content.css > csscat/footnotes-alttbrpl2.css
-cat dev-common.css dev-tooltips.css dev-tooltips-alternative.css dev-layout-main-content.css > csscat/footnotes-alttbrpl3.css
-echo "Done."
-elif [[ $1 == "d" ]]; then
-echo "Move minified to css/ and delete concatenations and their temp dir:"
-cd ../css/csscat
-mv footnotes-nottbrpl0.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-nottbrpl1.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-nottbrpl2.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-nottbrpl3.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-jqttbrpl0.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-jqttbrpl1.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-jqttbrpl2.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-jqttbrpl3.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-alttbrpl0.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-alttbrpl1.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-alttbrpl2.min.css ..
-mv footnotes-alttbrpl3.min.css ..
-cd ..
-rm -r csscat
-echo "Done."
-else
-echo "Concatenates CSS files; deletes the concatenations after they’ve been minified."
-echo ""
-echo "12 unified style sheets are concatenated out of these files:"
-echo ""
-echo "dev-common.css"
-echo ""
-echo "dev-tooltips.css"
-echo "dev-tooltips-alternative.css"
-echo ""
-echo "dev-layout-reference-container.css"
-echo "dev-layout-entry-content.css"
-echo "dev-layout-main-content.css"
-echo ""
-echo "Command: c: Concatenate temporary files waiting for minification."
-echo "Command: d: Move the minified files to css/, delete the temporary."
-echo "No command, \"--help\", or anything else: Output this help section."
-fi