[wp-hackers] Re: Plugin update notifications

[Viper007Bond]

Unless I'm remembering wrong, only all the plugin meta from the top of the
plugin file is sent to WP.org. The readme file is never touched.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:

> I think the readme.txt file on the user's side is not needed, actually
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Alexander Beutl <xel at netgra.de> wrote:
> > As you said nothing about it:
> >  Is there a readme.txt file in this directory?
> >
> >  2008/4/13, Mahmoud H. Al-Qudsi <computerguru at neosmart.net>:
> >
> >
> > >
> >  > I don't think that's the case - I WISH it were.
> >  >
> >  > I have a hand-hacked version of the recent-posts widget, modified to
> take
> >  > advantage of the caching system I'm using. I renamed it, removed the
> >  > author
> >  > URI, and did a million different things, yet WP 2.5 keeps on asking
> me to
> >  > upgrade to the "new" version...
> >  >
> >  > For clarification:
> >  > File: wp-content/plugins/widgets/nst_recent.php
> >  > Name: "NST Recent Posts Widget"
> >  > Author:
> >  >
> >  > But I am STILL asked to "Download version 1.2.1.20070210b here"
> (linking
> >  > to
> >  > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widgets/)
> >  >
> >  > It's ONLY looking at the directory name ("widgets") and not at
> anything
> >  > else, and that's driving me crazy. It thinks that because there's a
> plugin
> >  > in a folder called "widgets" that means it's the same "widgets"
> plugin on
> >  > wordpress.org, and it wants to upgrade.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > -MQ
> >  >
> >  >
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