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In July it will have been 5 years since the first commit to GitHub Updater. In its 5 year span it has grown significantly in its evolution from a single file plugin to the complex integrated object oriented plugin that exists today. Version 8 will see a bump in the requirement to at least PHP…
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GitHub Updater is a WordPress plugin that seeks to emulate the wp-admin dashboard updating experience for plugins and themes hosted on other git hosts. Among the most popular git hosts to use for social coding, or simply provide an external version control system, are GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Gitea. In order to provide an identical…
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GitLab Support I’ve finally been able to add support for GitLab in the GitHub Updater v4.5.0. Additionally, support for GitLab CE and GitLab Enterprise are also included. All that’s required is an additional header with the base URI for the GitLab server. As an example, GitLab CE: https://gitlab.example.com or GitLab Enterprise: https://gitlab.example.com. Extras for GitHub…
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So GitHub Updater just received a couple of new features in version 4.3.0. At the suggestion of @mlteal, there is now a setting to add a personal GitHub Access Token. You must at least select public_repos. What this does is blast away the limit of 60 API calls per hour and raises it to 5000…
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GitHub Updater now gives some feedback when the API responds with an error. What I’ve done is capture the HTTP error code and add that to an admin_head hook. I’ve also included some data if the error is the result of banging against GitHub API’s rate limit for unauthenticated accesses. Error Codes As these are…
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So just a couple of weeks later and I now have a logo for GitHub Updater. I worked with Mark at @LogoMajestic and I must say after a few initial concepts from LogoMajestic I sent them a quick sketch of my concept and they nailed it in the first go round. From Concept To Result…