It’s working fine in my blog sidebar although I needed to carefully size the form correctly at aweber and add a background colour to the widget to make it display well. It’s not the easiest but it works.
If I am not mistaken upgrade process is essentially: Deactivating plugin. Replacing files with newer version. Re-activating plugin. Had you treid to simply reproduce this sequence manually?
It really depends on the plugin developer and how they incorporate settings. The other option is to try and put it inside the /wp-content/mu-plugins but I’m not sure if that will allow you to have only a master setting. You could also try hard coding it in the plugin files. What plugin is it? I … Read more
I would use vote it up, it does support two way voting but can be a bit buggy about accurate tracking of votes
I think you’re taking the right approach: version-checking and die. The only thing I might recommend would be to hook it into the Plugin activation hook. Out of curiosity, though: why aren’t you using wp_die() (Codex ref)? As a side note: I would love to see the Theme and Plugin repositories implement some sort of … Read more
None that I know of… However, this could be achieved indirectly by using a download manager plugin such as this one which has the option to allow downloads only to logged in users. The indirect solution would then come in the form of using one of the multitude of plugins which require captcha/reCaptcha as part … Read more
Such a plugin does not yet exist because Google does not have a public API that allows for such third party integrations.
Check out http://editflow.org/ – a project launched by newsroom programmers. It’s something that addresses the entire editorial workflow, from scheduling to attribution. Bonus: it now has WP Document Revisions integration.
I had the same problem. When auto-updating, certain files would get “locked” somehow stopping the rest of the update process. Are you using Windows cache extension for PHP by any chance? Read the following post: http://ruslany.net/2011/04/wincache-and-wordpress-plugin-upgrade-problem/
I have often wondered whether I could write such a thing. Problem is that a plugin can (and sometimes needs to) make changes – database and sometimes files too. There is NO way for an external party to know what changes were made. A plugin that could manage the process would have to (as noted … Read more