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• Automatic Plugin & Theme Updating From GitHub – Part 2

  A technical deep-dive into how GitHub Updater scans plugin and theme headers, queries the GitHub and Bitbucket APIs with transient caching to avoid rate limits, and hooks into WordPress core update mechanisms with minimal overhead for both developers and end users.

  Aug 21, 2014

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• Automatic Plugin & Theme Updating From GitHub – Part 1

  The origin story of GitHub Updater traces the plugin from its roots as a frustration with manually FTP-ing updates across multiple sites, through a series of forks and collaborations with Gary Jones, Seth Carstens, and Paul Clark, to a combined plugin-and-theme updater.

  Aug 1, 2014

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