[wp-testers] Keeping Up-to-date

[Aaron Brazell]

> Keeping Up-to-date
> 
> 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.
> 

An optional Plugin descriptor line on the top could be created that takes a URL to a text/RSS/XML file with current plugin versioning.

Eg.
Update URL: http://www.example.dom/my-plugin-version.xml


Call it optional as the addition of screenshot.png was optional, yet encouraged, to themes.
 
-Aaron