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WordCamp LAX 2015
Slides and a WordPress TV recording from the WordCamp LAX 2015 talk on plugin development are shared here.
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GitHub Updater & GitLab
Version 4.5.0 adds support for GitLab, GitLab CE, GitLab Enterprise, and GitHub Enterprise via new plugin headers, alongside a refactored abstract API class and a dedicated Messages class.
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Smash API Rate Limit & More
Version 4.3.0 adds a personal GitHub Access Token setting to raise the API rate limit to 5000 calls per hour, along with plugin branch switching and a View details link on the plugins page.
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GitHub Updater and Error Messages
HTTP error codes from the GitHub and Bitbucket APIs are now surfaced as WordPress admin notices, with a 401 indicating an authorization failure and a 403 indicating a surpassed rate limit along with the reset time.
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GitHub Updater Logo
A hand-drawn concept sketch submitted to LogoMajestic resulted in a professional logo for GitHub Updater that matched the original vision on the very first pass.
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Looking for a Logo
A WordCamp sponsorship request prompted the search for an official logo for GitHub Updater, leading to a hand-drawn concept sketch and the start of work with a professional logo designer.
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GitHub Updater 4.1.0
The v4.1.0 release delivers community bug fixes and a new remote install feature that eliminates the manual download-rename-upload workflow for GitHub and Bitbucket plugins and themes.
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GitHub Updater and Remote Installation
The v4.0.0 release introduces namespacing and PSR-4 autoloading, and the upcoming v4.1.0 adds one-click remote installation of plugins and themes from public and private GitHub and Bitbucket repositories using the WordPress upgrader classes.
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Refactoring and Autoloaders
Refactoring work on GitHub Updater and The Events Calendar Category Colors adopts PHP 5.3 namespacing and PSR-4 autoloading via spl_autoload_register, with class aliasing used to maintain backward compatibility across plugin versions.
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Private Bitbucket Repositories
An update to GitHub Updater reorganizes the Settings page so clients enter their own Bitbucket credentials, improving security by letting developers add clients as read-only users without exposing the developer password.
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Automatic Plugin & Theme Updating From GitHub – Part 3
Recent improvements to GitHub Updater include privileged-user-only execution, spl_autoload_register for class loading, Parsedown for changelog rendering, a new Settings Page for storing credentials outside the repository, and a fix for a long-standing bug preventing Bitbucket private repository updates.
