I am looking at setting up a blog for all my plugins. All the plugins are hosted oh github.
because each plugin has all the information I would want to show in my blog already I want to try generating my blog pages automatically (and the demo pages for the plugins). I know how to setup post-receive hooks to get A ping when the repo gets pushed to. And I could download the entire zip of that repo but I am wondering if there is a more elegant way and was looking at pulling just the changes and merging them. Is this possible with php?
Maybe Git.php can do what you need.
Have you Googled for a PHP+Git library? I did and found this: PHP Git, and this git-php.
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I'm currently trying to duplicate the WordPress instance my customer is running to do some testing before changing something in the live version. Sadly I can't figure out how to get all Data including the Woocommerce WebShop on my own Test-Server. My Test-Server is freshly installed and runs WordPress with MariaDB. All the Data I got from the customers Server is located in a Folder with the Name "www.WEBSITEOFCUSTOMER.at", I can't go higher into the Folder Hirarchy due to restrictions of his WebSpace Provider.
This is the Content of the "www.WEBSITEOFCUSTOMER.at" Folder
At some point it looked like I could just copy it over into my /var/www/html/wordpress/ but that destroyed my Test-Instance.
Assuming that I understand that you don't have deep and well knowledge about migration/transfers, I will suggest you to use the Duplicator Plugin to make your job without any issues. This plugin can packaging all your data in one file and then moving to another server/folder etc. you can extract the package with new address. But one notice here: You have to read how Duplicator works, then understand the process and then start to transfer. One good point to understand how the plugin works is to search on youtube where are many guides and examples to see. If you do one time you will not forget for ever. Like a bike in example ;)
Hope this help and if you meet any trouble during the process do not hesitate to ask again for further information.
How can I automatically (maybe using a cronjob?) push code from my FTP server (only a wordpress plugin, not the entire project) to GitHub, using PHP?
I know that you'd usually have a local environment, and then push that to GitHub and then pull from GitHub to FTP, but in this scenario, I want to change the files directly on FTP, and then every hour or half day, push to GitHub automatically. Is this even possible? It needs to commit, push and merge automatically.
We want to use this so we have the possibility to go back and look at earlier versions of the file. We've looked into GitHub API, but we can't seem to find what we need. I hope the question makes sense.
I am making a woocommerce website and I was wondering what is the best way to update plugins (details) and still be able to update the plugin.
For example, I have two plugins that I just want to change the content in them like the currencies in woocommerce writes د.ب which is in Arabic Bahraini Dinar and I wanted it to be BHD.
Also another example I wanted to change in the wc-vendor plugin the namings instead of calling them vendors I want to call them artists.
I been reading articles about the best methods to update a plugin but I am not sure if they are also valid if I just wanted to change the "Naming" not "functionality"
https://www.seedprod.com/customizing-wordpress-plugins/
Summary:
I appreciate if you can tell me how to change plugin content and still be able to update it.
Thanks!
If you're using plugins developed by others, you may have more problem again in the future if the plugins update. Ask the developer or create an issue regarding the problem. Unless you're writing it of your own, you can play the changes locally or create an staging environment. If sound no problem, that's the time you need to replace code in plugins directory.
I assume, upstream developers are not able or willing to provide hooks for your need.
If you really must modify a plugin, put the plugin source code in a version control system (Git, Mercurial, ...). Make a branch for your changes, and each time a new upstream version comes up, import the upstream version and forward merge your modifications.
I am currently working on a project documentation site for an OSS PHP project. Presently all of the docs are written in Markdown and stored as separate files.
I would really like to keep the core documentation as static files within the project so that they can be downloaded and used as well as read on my website. But on the website, I'd like to render those pages from within a CMS.
In addition to presenting the code docs, I also want to provide a forum for discussion and a blog.
Wordpress is what I have experience with, but is there a better system for what I am trying to accomplish specifically?
For Blog and CMS I would suggest stick with Wordpress since you already have experience on it. And as far as Forum is concerned I would suggest SimplePress forum. I have been using it on my Wordpress installation and found it really good. You can see live forum on the link above to see how it looks in real world.
Also Wordpress has several nice plugins like Download Manager that will give you ability to manage your downloads/files.
Can't confirm if wp is the best, but it's certainly good enough.
To include your docs, you'll have to write a plugin, not likely that you will find one existing that does exactly what you want.
For forum, you should find a plugin. Google for posts similar to this to choose a best match.
Firstly Wordpress isn't a framework.
I believe CakePHP has the functionality to load hardcoded pages when they're placed in the webroot folder of the app. I'm unsure as to how they're loaded in regards to routing/templating however.
I have a hosting (hostgator) account with a master directory and multiple subdirectories, each representing a www address. I'd like to know if its possible to create an interface in php that would allow me to update a given file (say, header.php) in a specific folder (my custom wordpress theme which resides in each site) which will be the same in every site.
I currently have to do this via FTP, but its cumbersome b/c I have to open each directory and copy the file to it. So if I have 30 sites to update, its very time consuming. i'd like to just have a list of sites with a checkbox beside each of them (and a "select all" toggle) and run the update on all sites in one click)
Thanks for your input!
PS: I know there are probably chron scripts or interfaces that can do this, but I'll be creating a scriptable (PHP) solution I can package up and send to someone and it just works and is brain-dead simple to use.
Yes, it's possible, you can modify files using PHP's file functions and you can communicate what to update through sockets.
It would be fairly complicated to implement though so I'm not sure what you're asking for.. Yes it's possible but I doubt someone here will give you a copy&paste solution. Do you have a more specific question?
EDIT: an easier solution would be to have a SVN repository so you can simply do it with one line of PHP code:
`svn update`
Any reason you're not using WordPress MU? With it and the child theme functionality built into recent versions of WordPress, your life might be a lot easier.
Yes:
I currently have to do this via FTP,
but its cumbersome b/c I have to open
each directory and copy the file to
it. So if I have 30 sites to update,
its very time consuming. i'd like to
just have a list of sites with a
checkbox beside each of them (and a
"select all" toggle) and run the
update on all sites in one click)
Basically you need to script those FTP actions and provide some logic as to what path and what files. You can then style the entire thing with a simple front end, listing your sites with a checkbox to select.
Doesn't seem difficult, just have to get the FTP path traversal working and file cp'ing down.
Have a look at Phing and search Google for deployment with PHP
If you are hosting multiple WP sites, you really should use WPMU.
I've implemented Uploadify for single / multiple file upload. Works great.
I also use Wordpress.
if its just the header.php and you dont have svn (you could setup an hook which would copy it for you to the right place)
you could write a bash script if you have ssh access