wp-updater

The WP Updater scripts allows to updates themes or plugins from external sources such as GitHub. Currently, only GitHub is supported. WP Updater is maintained by Make it WorkPress.

Usage

You can include the WP Updater script in your theme or plugin, and required all the included classes manually or use a PHP autoloader. You can read more about autoloading in the readme of wp-autoload.

Installation

After you have correctly included all WP Updater script files or used an autoloader, the updater can be initialized.

For plugins:

    $updater = MakeitWorkPress\WP_Updater\Boot::instance();
    $updater->add(['type' => 'plugin', 'source' => 'https://github.com/yourname/plugin-on-github']);

And for themes:

    $updater = MakeitWorkPress\WP_Updater\Boot::instance();
    $updater->add(['type' => 'theme', 'source' => 'https://github.com/yourname/theme-on-github']);

There are few things that should be noted: *Because the updater is placed within a theme or plugin itself, it only functions when this given theme or plugin is active. *For plugins, the folder name should be similar as the main file initilizing your plugin. For example, plugin-name/plugin-name.php.