I‘m not a lawyer but a plugin developer. As far as I know you ca republish any GPL code. The only thing you should do first is try to reach the author in the forum have a look at the plugin files, maybe there’s an email address where you can try to reach out to … Read more
How to use github to update my plugin
The easiest thing would be to use some sort of dependency management. You could use git submodules (link to SCM page) or for e.g. Composer. When you are using an autoloader (Composer ships with one) and have a PSR-4 (Fig standard) compliant autoloader (like Composer has), then you can just use \Namespace\SubNamespace and have everything … Read more
Git Hosting for WordPress SVN Plugin Repository [closed]
The theme name is not related to the folder. The theme name comes from the header information inside the style.css file inside the theme. It’s quite possible that the update being downloaded is a different theme. That’s because of a loophole in the update system itself. The update is checked via the theme-slug instead of … Read more
Generate pages from markdown files in github automatically
To my knowledge it is not possible to generically clone/checkout the latest stable version with either git or svn. In either case you have to identify the specific tag (version) you want to pull from with git or svn. Or, as you’ve done, just pull trunk (which is the development branch) For more see: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Subversion
First, you seem to misunderstand how PHP handles incoming POST request. It only exists in that instance webhook is making request. If you load that page in a browser there won’t be any POST data, unless you are submitting some. To properly check that request was received you should log results from that file and … Read more
The wordpress plugin repo does not have any API as far as I can tell for push and pull hooks from a 3rd party service like github. Right now the solutions are hacky at best and require you to use git as a middle man (on your computer) and also deal with SVN’s use of … Read more
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() … Read more