[wp-testers] Keeping Up-to-date

[Chris Meller]

I thought the same thing. Unfortunately, since there's really no  
centralized repository for plugins, right now it's up to each author  
to maintain this type of thing. I wrote a simple plugin called Plugin  
Update Server, which adds some very basic options for your plugins to  
poll a centralized server (your blog) to check for updates.

You can find it at http://incoherentcode.com/projects/plugin-update- 
server/. Hope it's of use in some way.

--
Chris Meller
chris at doesnthaveone.com


On Jan 22, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Vogel, Andrew ((vogelap)) wrote:

> I think that it would be awesome to have a WordPress plugin or  
> something
> that would display an update notification for updated plugins. This
> notification would be displayed on the Dashboard and on the Plugins
> page.
>
> -drew
> www.drewvogel.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:wp-testers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Sean
> Hayford O'Leary
> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 5:06 AM
> To: WordPress Development
> Subject: [wp-testers] Keeping Up-to-date
>
> A thought--
> For Joe Blogger, it's a bit of a pain to remember to check  
> WordPress.org
> every month to make sure his blogware is up-to-date.
> Sure, the Dashboard lists the feed from the dev blog, but if Joe
> Blogger's like me, he never reads it.
>
> Wouldn't it be practical to have an XML file hosted on WordPress.org
> (e.g. http://wordpress.org/download/update?ver=$version)? By  
> default, it
> would be empty, but when the version is replaced by another, it would
> simply contain a reminder and a link that could be printed at the  
> top of
> the admin interface (for level 10 users).
>
> Obviously, require(); and include(); would work as well, though I  
> might
> muster a guess that using either with an external site would be  
> frowned
> upon.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Sean Hayford O'Leary
> http://sdho.hayfordoleary.com
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