[wp-hackers] How to rename plugins in the plugin repository?

[Raj]

Thanks Otto, Piyush, Eric,

I'm going to have to change the URL that is generated using the method Otto
suggested. 

Raj

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Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] How to rename plugins in the plugin repository?

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Raj <list at expost.org> wrote:
> Thank you piyush and Eric,
>
> I agree that hard coding directory names is a bad practice. I started
working on this plugin a little over a year ago when I was something of a
wordpress API newbie so I did what worked :)
>
> All of the emails that my plugin sends to email subscribers have URLs that
lead directly to the plugin files. Like this:
>
>
http://www.youriste.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-responder-email-autoresponder-
and-newsletter-plugin/confirm.php?p=[some_10_character_string_identifies_sub
scriber]
>
> Many email providers, especially Gmail, strip out URLs in emails that are
too long. As you can see the biggest offender is the plugin's directory name
which is unnecessarily long. So it is becoming a problem for the users of
the plugin.
>
> Obviously I will have to change the plugin such that it doesn't link
directly to one of the plugin files. But now....as of day 5 after submitting
to wp extend directory the plugin has had around 610 downloads which I think
is pretty impressive. It's really painful to think about all those people
having installed the plugin and not many of them being able to use this
plugin reliably. I need to solve this problem ASAP.
>
> Please help.

You should rework that to use a URL that goes to the root of the
installation instead, using a custom query variable.

Instead of linking to the confirm.php file, do something like this:

add_action('init','my_init');
function my_init() {
	// check for my special variable name
	if(isset($_GET['confirm_email'])) {
		include ('confirm.php);
		die;
	}
}

Then link to http://example.com/?confirm_email=whatever. Your main
plugin will notice this on init, then can include the confirm.php file
to do the work, then die off gracefully (or redirect, or whatever is
appropriate).

-Otto
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