[wp-hackers] Plugin Update Checking and the Plugin URI

[Mark Jaquith]

On Sep 22, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Matt wrote:

> For the plugin update checking in 2.3, does the Plugin URI of the  
> plugin
> have to be that of wp.org's? For example, if you have added your  
> plugin to
> wp.org, but you have the Plugin URI of the plugin set to your site,
> will 2.3still check for updates for it?

You can point the URL elsewhere.  Note that the bundled Akismet  
plugin points to http://akismet.com/, but update notification still  
works for that.

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