How can I edit commit messages in my wp-hosted plugin repo?
what’s the best way to go about editing commit messages? Don’t worry about it, don’t make such mistake in future “ask the administrator to create a pre-revprop-change hook”
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How to update plugins with database updates if I use svn
This will not be a problem. WordPress doesn’t provide plugins with an explicit update hook for this reason: If a plugin is manually updated then this upgrade hook won’t fire. The best way to manage database upgrades is to do it the same way as WordPress does it. Store an option containing your plugin’s database … Read more
Recreating a local repository from a currently existing wordpress.org repo..which I own
Use this URL format for checkout (if using TortoiseSVN, just right click and do checkout from Explorer): http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/your-plugin-name You will need to use your username/password for WordPress (the account used to publish the plugin) to do any commits. Command line instructions are available direct from WordPress here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/svn/
Create a patch using TortoiseSVN
I found the answer myself. I wasn’t creating the patch correctly. You have to use the “Create patch…” option in TortoiseSVN on the root folder, not the patched file itself.
How to show active version on wordpress.org of a published plugin?
For the current version, make sure you include the Version attribute in your plugin header file. Like this: /* Plugin Name: WordPress.org Plugin Plugin URI: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/the-basics/ Description: Basic WordPress Plugin Header Comment Version: 2.3.0 Author: WordPress.org Author URI: https://developer.wordpress.org/ License: GPL2 License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Text Domain: wporg Domain Path: /languages */ For more detail check … Read more
How to remove images from my plugin page in WP Directory?
Needed to use svn delete command to delete files, and then commit the changes. Screenshot: https://prnt.sc/v0lzb2
How long should it take for a plugin to fully load into the WordPress.org plugin repository?
A readme update may take a week or more. Sometimes it helps to update just the readme file again. The Last Updated field is … dead. One of my plugins still shows the date 2010-12-24, but I had three updates in the mean time, the last one a week ago. The whole system feels like … Read more
How to update WordPress plugins to latest using SVN
If you know Subversion basics and can work with it (and write at least some bash-code), it will be feasible task All plugins placed in common repo http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org, each plugin is subdir of the root plugins.svn.wordpress.org/PLUGINNAME, published versions (all, not only releases) stored as directories in tags: plugins.svn.wordpress.org/PLUGINNAME/tags/ In order to check new versions of … Read more
Cannot update …/tags folder in SVN Repository
This is an instruction I wrote for myself: Increment version nummber in plugin php file. Increment the “Stable tag” in readme.txt file to to the same number. Copy over all files from local plugin folder to the the D:\My_SVN_Folder\Plugin_Name\trunk Right click trunk folder and select SVN Commit Enter “Version X.X.X” and Save files to /trunk … Read more
How do I implement a .diff changeset from core.trac.wordpress.org locally?
The command you need is patch which is not specific to SVN. It’s really easy to do. See this article: http://jungels.net/articles/diff-patch-ten-minutes.html