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Given the recent concerns regarding publishing plugins or themes on wordpress.org, there has been much interest in other methods of distribution and updating within the ecosystem. Git Updater is a method of providing this type of service but it does have a drawback. The user must create an Updates API Server by installing and activating…
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The need or desire to use a personal remote management service makes a few assumptions. Any references to GitHub Updater are now to Git Updater. Git Updater allows for updating of plugins and themes that are developed outside of the official WordPress repository. Often these projects reside in GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab. Updating these repositories…
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Firstly, this is only meant as a how I do it. I’m using MacOS. core.git.wordpress.org It is based on using git://core.git.wordpress.org/. This would be similar to WP core development on a regular install using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin set for bleeding edge nightlies. Create symlink of wp-config.php into /public The following can be used…
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My Translations Updater Composer library also works for any plugins or themes that are using EDD Software Licensing. I have recently written about the basic purpose and function of the Translations Updater library. EDD Software Licensing Integration As of EDD Software Licensing v3.6, there are a couple of action hooks in the plugin/theme updater samples…
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As part of the GitHub Updater I introduced a process for independent language pack updating. The normal process is to include translation files, as part of your plugins, in a /languages directory inside of your plugin and load them via load_plugin_textdomain(). This also works for themes. Decoupled Language Packs If your plugin is in the…