using semantic-release to update version strings in release and via commit for non-npm project

I am developing a handful of WordPress projects on Gitlab and I would like to use semantic-release to automatically manage releases. To that end I'm trying to accomplish a few additional things:

• Update and commit applicable version strings in the codebase via ${nextRelease.version}.
• Similarly update versions strings in the files generated for the release (which are zipped for convenience).

I'm pretty sure I'm close, I've got the first item (via google's semantic-release-replace-plugin) but not the second. Up to this point I've tried to do most things via semantic-releases' plugin ecosystem, but if need be I can venture into script territory.

My .releaserc looks like:

{
  "branches": [ "main" ],
  "plugins": [
    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
    [
      "@google/semantic-release-replace-plugin",
      {
        "replacements": [
          {
            "files": ["style.css"],
            "from": "Version: .*",
            "to": "Version: ${nextRelease.version}",
            "results": [
              {
                "file": "style.css",
                "hasChanged": true,
                "numMatches": 1,
                "numReplacements": 1
              }
            ],
            "countMatches": true
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/git",
      {
        "assets": ["style.css"]
      }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/gitlab", 
      {
        "assets": [
          {"path": "experiments.zip", "label": "zip"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  ]
}

And the .gitlab-ci.yml looks like:

variables:
  GL_TOKEN: $GL_TOKEN

stages:
    - release

before_script:
  - npm install

publish:
  image: cimg/php:7.4-node
  stage: release
  script:
    - npm run build
    - npm run zip
    - npx semantic-release
  only:
    refs:
      - main

Where npm run build compiles some assets and npm run zip is a JavaScript-based script that zips up the desired production-ready files, in this case to generate the experiments.zip.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

So the main issue here was that compilation was just not occurring at the right time and I needed to slip a

"@semantic-release/exec",
{
    "prepareCmd": "node bin/makezip.js"
}

between "@semantic-release/git" and "@semantic-release/gitlab".