[*] If I were you… download original theme. caution: same version install git from https://git-scm.com/downloads [*] do Git Init in original theme, git add && git commit move .git folder (hidden) to your edited theme use git status, git diff… etc Be happy [*]Git detects all the diferences in your work directory. ciao [*]
The latest plugin update information is available by print_r(get_site_transient(‘update_plugins’)); or if you want to filter out wordpress.org plugins and make it more readable… $pluginupdates = get_site_transient(‘update_plugins’); foreach ($pluginupdates->response as $pluginupdate => $values) { if (!stristr($values->package,’wordpress.org’)) { echo “Plugin Name: “.$values->slug.” — “; echo “Update Package: “.$values->package.”<br>”.PHP_EOL; } } Of course, this will just return blank … Read more
The name of the temporary file created by the download_url function is 118 characters long. The length of this is causing the full path name of some files or directories created during the unzip process to be longer than the allowable length on Windows. Therefore an error is thrown and the plugin upgrade fails. I … Read more
Several comments just in case, you probably should check that the PHP version is 5.5 and above before calling the function (or check for its existence, not sure if an equivalent function existed in the original APC under the same name) You priority is too high. You actually want to call it after all other … Read more
Ok, after having digged into WP source for a couple of hours, found a workaround. Simply tell wordpress to NOT remove old files. Now files are 100% overwritten and cached files maintained. Code is really simple add_filter(‘upgrader_package_options’, ‘avoid_deletion’, 999); function avoid_deletion($options) { if($options[‘hook_extra’][‘plugin’] == ‘my-plugin/my-plugin.php’) { $options[“clear_destination”] = false; $options[“abort_if_destination_exists”] = false; } return $options; … Read more
There are scripts available which can do the job for you. As per my understanding, you will have to host your plugin updates on a remote location so that the update checker can access that and do the necessary job. You can take a look at this script which seems to be very useful as … Read more
I don’t know what big agencies do, but I can tell you one developer tool that can be used to automate this kind of testing: Codeception. What this sort of testing is technically called is acceptance testing. Codeception allows you to write automated acceptance tests. It even has an extension that will take screenshots and … Read more
Yes, any custom file in a theme directory will be deleted at every update. Adaptations to a theme should be in a separate directory according tot the rules for child themes.
There are newlines being generated before your <!DOCTYPE> declaration, which you can see by viewing the source code of your site from your browser: As Rarst suggested, there is probably some incompatible code that is causing this output to be generated. The extra whitespace can cause the issues you’ve described. There are many resources on … Read more
Yes there are a lot of benefits. There are 2 types of release: Major WordPress releases, e.g. 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 Minor releases e.g. 4.1.1, 4.1.2, etc Normally if a major security hole is discovered, it’s backported to the older major versions, usually the previous 3 or so ( I forget exactly how many ). Keep … Read more