Existing 3rd-party plugin update providers

[james]

These will be good starting points / sources of inspiration for how our plugin directory works:

View in #programming on Slack

@laurence: @cogginsalan Did you get a proper way of keeping the plugins updated on a private server? Please share if so.

@jnylen: @laurence you should still be able to go to the dashboard and update? or maybe I’m not understanding

@slack1891: @jnylen, it was for serving updates from a remote server (ie, for our GitHub’d plugins)… @laurence, this is the plugin that @cogginsalan used:

https://genbumedia.com/plugins/fx-updater/

f(x) Updater - WordPress Plugin by Genbu Media

@jnylen: ah

@slack1891: I’ve also been giving it a whirl - it works pretty well.
Stop-gap solution for pre-CP-plugin-dir

@jnylen: there’s also https://github.com/afragen/github-updater

afragen/github-updater

serves the updates from GitHub etc
we’ll probably take a lot of inspiration from this plugin with the ClassicPress directory
if some of y’all want to dissect it and learn how it works, even better - I’ve not looked yet
that’s a separate plugin - there is also https://github.com/radishconcepts/WordPress-GitHub-Plugin-Updater which is a class you include with each plugin

radishconcepts/WordPress-GitHub-Plugin-Updater

@slack1891: Cool. The one I linked is perhaps a combo of the 2… the plugin provides the server and a class provides the client

@jnylen: using a CP site as the update server instead of GitHub, right?

@slack1891: either or

@jnylen: ah
ok going to save this to a thread in the plugin directory subforum

@slack1891: For sure… there’s a nice array of already-invented-wheels out there to cherry pick from.

[ozfiddler]

This is the post where I discussed how I set this up.

Automatic updating of plugins from a personal repo

I’ve just been discussing this on Slack but thought it might be of interest to others on the forum. This week I wrote my first plugin - a very simple one, but very satisfying to get it working. I was wondering today if it was possible to update my new plugin across all my sites without having to do it manually, or go through the Wordpress system. And I found this… https://genbumedia.com/plugins/fx-updater/ Your own update server for WordPress themes and plugins. The way it works is you set u…

[anon63659058]

There’s also this one in the repository: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-plugin-update-server/ - it has an example theme/plugin as well as option for license keys on premium products.

Not tested yet!

[james]

Ran across another one today: https://wppusher.com/

[ElisabettaCarrara]

It has been closed on the 20th March 2019…

[wadestriebel]

Interesting: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-closed-on-wordpress-org/

[azurecurve]

So why would that be banned, but this allowed: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloud-blocks/

[invisnet]

I think their reasoning is that the code for the blocks never ends up on the server.