As long as you use a valid WordPress.org username in the Contributors: tag in readme.txt, then yes: once the readme.txt is parsed by Extend/SVN, then the specified username automagically has SVN-commit access to the Plugin. Note: I know that it works for the Contribuors: tag, as I am such a contributor on a couple Plugins. … Read more
Warning: This is not legal advice. The only definitive answer you can get on a legal subject is from a lawyer trained in that area. If your defence in court is that you read a stack exchange answer that will not hold up. Having said that I’ll try to answer using information from the FSF … Read more
Perhaps this doesn’t fully answer your question, but the table rate shipping plugin does give you the option to set a priority for a particular rate. Furthermore, this discussion gives a lot of hints as to where you could look for solutions
Like Rarst answered you can really do that without editing core files or remove the page attributes metabox and create your on using the same code with a bit of modification. the code below is the code for the /admin/include/meta-boxes.php and i added the a comment to show where your extra page template options would … Read more
For the benefit of others who find this page, I suggest those wishing to provide their own updates outside the official WP repository check out this project on GitHub, that demonstrates the functionality: https://github.com/jeremyclark13/automatic-theme-plugin-update
How does WordPress determine “the main plugin file” ? It is the file in your plugin that contains the plugin header comment /** * Plugin Name: A fresh example * Plugin URI: http://example.com * Description: Foo makes a bar * Version: 2012-06-14.1426 * Author: John Doe * Author URI: http://example.com * TextDomain: your_textdomain * License: … Read more
Turns out I solved my own question with help from a colleague. The two filters that get called after media is uploaded or when media is being edited are; ‘add_attachment’ and ‘edit_attachment’. Here is the code I am using, I then check to see if the attachment is an image (code omitted from example). function … Read more
Probably not. The recommended way to get your enhancements into the plugin is: Send your fixes to the developer and ask her to merge them into the original. If your changes are rather personal customizations, this won’t happen. If the plugin is written in a strict OOP style you can create a second plugin which … Read more
If the plugin structure is: plugins/ some-plugin/ some-plugin.php data/ GeoIP.dat then for PHP 5.3.0+, you could try the magic constant __DIR__ __DIR__ The directory of the file. If used inside an include, the directory of the included file is returned. This is equivalent to dirname(__FILE__). This directory name does not have a trailing slash unless … Read more
A base WordPress installation probably won’t do what you want it to. You could set up a multi-site instance and allow users to have their own ‘sub’ site, or use something like BuddyPress or Mingle that has a user profile feature.