It appears that in some instances during composer install/update process the support section is removed from the composer.lock file and that causes the documentation link to not appear on the Control Panel > Settings > Plugins page.
After some digging and testing, including the documentationUrl item in the extra section should help the situation.
Also, while reviewing some other popular Craft plugins, I noticed that the following items were also present in the extra section so I included those as well:
khalwat
commented
4 years ago
It appears that in some instances during composer install/update process the support section is removed from the
composer.lockfile and that causes the documentation link to not appear on the Control Panel > Settings > Plugins page.After some digging and testing, including the
documentationUrlitem in the extra section should help the situation.Also, while reviewing some other popular Craft plugins, I noticed that the following items were also present in the extra section so I included those as well: