WP Plugin Update Server

WP Plugin Update Server allows developers to provide updates for plugins and themes packages not hosted on wordpress.org. It is useful to provide updates for plugins or themes not compliant with the GPLv2 (or later). Packages may be either uploaded directly, or hosted in a remote repository, public or private. It supports Bitbucket, Github and Gitlab, as well as self-hosted installations of Gitlab. Package updates may require a license, and licenses can be managed through an API or a user interface within WP Plugin Update Server.

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/wp-plugin-update-server directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
3. Edit plugin settings

1.4

• Handle licenses in WP Plugin Update Server
• Provide a compatible public API with SLM API (check, activate, deactivate)
• Provide a secure private license API (browse, read, edit, add, delete) - "add" compatible with "slm_create_new"
• Refactor main aspects of the plugin structure and UI
• Seamless upgrade from v1.3, migration of settings and licenses from SLM
• Automatic expiration of licenses wherever an expiration date is set
• Upgrade WP Package Updater to v1.4.0
• Upgrade Dummy Plugin and Dummy Theme to v1.4 - ensure older versions are compatible with WP Plugin Update Server until v2.0
• Compatibility with v1.3 endpoints and v1.0.0 WP Package Updater ensured until v2.0
• License APIs, functions, actions and filters, with complete documentation
• Package download URLs now contains an unguessable token that changes everyday to prevent hotlinking
• Performance optimisations and tests script
• Add packages search
• Update WP Update Migrate to 1.2.2

1.3

• Full support for plugin icons & banners and theme details displayed to the client when there is a package update available.
• The MU Plugin wppus-endpoint-optimizer.php is now automatically included on plugin activation (still can be customized, still can safely be deleted, still optional - just very much recommended).
• Plugin interface revamped, with truely separated pages for each section.
• Refactor: schedule logic and zip packages management logic in dedicated classes
• Support for drag and drop uploads of packages

1.2.1

• Update MU Plugin wppus-endpoint-optimizer.php: add support for bypassing themes, add support for bypassing core actions and filters yet to be executed.
• Update WP Update Migrate to 1.2.0
• Update onscreen help
• Update documentation

1.2

• Move the plugin data directories to wp-content/wppus directory (or equivalent if WP_CONTENT_DIR is not the default)
• Add 13 functions, 18 actions and 8 filters for developers to use in their plugins and themes
• Update the client updater: change from wp-plugin-updater library to WP Package Updater, with backward compatibility until v2.0
• Include WP Update Migrate library to provide clean and full update path for current and future versions
• Interface improvements, documentation and various code refactoring

1.1

• General cleanup
• Add updater (prototype of WP Update Migrate library)

1.0.6

• Remove duplicates for "Remote update check frequency" values
• Fallback to the default "Once Daily" if the configured frequency has been removed (i.e. after a third party plugin has been deactivated)
• Add "Clear scheduled remote updates" button - useful to clean orphan wp-cron events
• Add "Reschedule remote updates" button - useful to reschedule wp-cron events for all existing packages

1.0.5

• Refactor update lock mechanism
• Force unlock update when adding a package
• Refresh interface when clearing cache and logs
• Cleanup - remove unused method and reorder methods by scope
• Fix "License manager integration disabled, notification asks for it anyways"

1.0.4

• More zip MIME types supported - frontend
• Cleanup Dummy Theme
• Clarification of help tab - description of remote repository structure
• Add warning to readme.txt

1.0.3

• More path normalization of dummy packages (Windows support)
• More zip MIME types supported - backend
• Clarification of help tab - update checker code and libraries are required

1.0.2

• Use proper directory separator
• Add WP Plugin Udpate Server to the list of plugins to keep active in the request optimizer

1.0.1

• Normalize path of dummy packages (Windows support)
• Remove development comments
• Fix path in help tab

1.0

• First version