[wp-hackers] Plugin code quality and best practice robot

[Vinicius Massuchetto]

Maybe useless for people here, but as the thing is about getting lots
of stuff, I just coded a small scraper to export all the PO files from
GlotPress:
https://github.com/vmassuchetto/glotpress-scraper

In the beginning, I just wanted to get the 'pt_BR' stuff, but the
effort to do it for everything was quite the same.

Cheers.
--
Vinicius Massuchetto
http://vinicius.soylocoporti.org.br


2013/1/18 Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>:
> You don't need a robot.
>
> https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Plugin-Directory-Slurper
>
> Download it, grep :)
>
> And ... we do that every now and then (in our free time, hah) to look for
> dodgy code, but I admit that's low on the list.
>
>
> Simon Dunton - WP Sites wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is just an idea I had this morning that I thought I would put out
>> there.
>>
>> I've recently been running WordPress with the codebase symlinked and the
>> wp-content folder in the directory above the WordPress core files. This is
>> causing problems with a number of plugins because they assume the plugin
>> folder will be site.com/wp-content/plugins. As most of you will probably
>> know, it's perfectly valid to have your wp-content, plugins, themes or
>> uploads directory where ever you want providing you set the correct
>> constants.
>>
>> I'm guessing this is a common issue that a sizeable percentage of .org
>> plugins suffer from. So I thought how about creating a robot to go through
>> all of the wp.org plugins and check for dodgy code like this. It could also
>> check the plugin doesn't generate any notices/errors by running it on a site
>> with error reporting on.
>>
>> The robot could then post a quick support question to the plugin author to
>> tell them paths need to be created this way and point them to the correct
>> page in the codex and the same with any other coding issues.
>>
>> What would WordPress.org think about a robot downloading plugins and
>> posting to the support forum section for that plugin? maybe one every couple
>> of seconds.
>>
>> Is there anything else quality or best practice wise that this robot could
>> detect and inform plugin authors of?
>>
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> WP Sites Ltd
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