[wp-testers] plugin updating...

[Dan Milward]

That would be pretty cool. I don't think it would not have to be too 
complicated - even if there was the ability to flag and protect certain 
folders from being overwritten by the FTP transfer that would probably 
be enough for most plugin developers.

We're coming up with ideas for hooks all the time. Actually. Just to 
give you an idea of some of the things we've worked on recently that 
need hooks:

A plugin to let you edit the Blogtitle & Tagline inline via your 
homepage (using an edit button)
-- to our knowledge there are no hooks that let us do this

A plugin that lets us change the page title for better / customized SEO 
results
-- again to our knowledge there are no hooks that lets us change the 
page <h1> title. We did find one to change the page meta <title> which 
was nice though.

Ciao,

Dan


Jacob Santos wrote:
> Might be time to revive the upgrade script idea (or am I thinking of 
> plugin data discussion). Might be useful to have a file called 
> upgrade.php (or whatever) which is called within the context of a 
> class which gives it access to control the flow of the upgrade.
>
> Dan Milward wrote:
>> Hi Dion,
>>
>> Thanks for the email.
>>
>> If you could come up with a few hooks then that would be awesome. I'm 
>> asking because we create plugins and I think it would be useful - the 
>> problem we are having right now is that people can add additional php 
>> files to our plugin to extend the core features.
>>
>> So when the update the plugin from WordPress extend they loose their 
>> work. If we were making a new plugin from scratch then this wouldn't 
>> be a problem and we would do it differently but because we already 
>> have lots of users I'm not sure we can do it.
>>
>> As an interim what we're going to try and do is just disable auto 
>> updates from happening but allow people to manually download updates 
>> and do it themselves. For powerful plugins I think this would be 
>> extremely cool.
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> DD32 wrote:
>>> It is not currently possible to hook in to make changes to what 
>>> is/isnt deleted.
>>>
>>> The plugin directory the files are stored in are often not the same 
>>> as the plugin's slug, In order to keep simpler code, all plugins are 
>>> stored into a folder based on their slug and the old plugin removed.
>>>
>>> If you have made changes to the core plugin, Consider submitting 
>>> them as patches back to the author, or forking the plugn(at least 
>>> for yourself = modify the plugin name and url)
>>> If the plugin stores files into its plugin folder, Consider asking 
>>> the plugin maintainer to store the data outside of the plugins 
>>> folder, Or in the database if its small enough. This has the benefit 
>>> of also keeping the plugins folder manageable.
>>>
>>> It may be possible in 2.6 to filter what is/isnt 
>>> deleted/removed/modified/etc, There have been 1 or 2 requests for it 
>>> so far since 2.5 release :). I'm working on some changes which'll 
>>> affect the upgraders code, so i may well try and write a few hooks 
>>> or something in, But as it is, there is no list of files which you 
>>> cna filter, it just says "Delete that folder and any files in it, i 
>>> dont care what the files are, just get rid of them"
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dion
>>>
>>> On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:52:24 +1000, Dan Milward <dan at instinct.co.nz> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>
>>>> How do we add custom code to the plugin updating system to preserve
>>>> files that people may have added to the plugin directory.
>>>>
>>>> Because by default it looks like it deletes the plugin directory and
>>>> replaces the all the files with the updated version - in the process
>>>> deleting any changes.
>>>>
>>>> Ciao,
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>>
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