There’re a couple of libraries out there. One of the more well known is from Joey Kudish and hosted on GitHub itself.
Basically it does the following:
- utilizes the GitHub API
- Adds a callback to the
'pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins'filter - Adds another callback to the
'plugins_api'filter - finally utilizes the WP HTTP API and does a
wp_remote_get()to the GitHub repo.
Oh, yes – close to have forgotten this – it adds a transient to avoid checking the remote repo on every request.
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