[wp-hackers] Plugin Site

[Danny Dawson]

Situation: Domain Name expires and is not re-registered.  Emails bounce.

Good to have a copy reside locally on the wp-plugins web server.  Also
good to keep the support data (i.e. forums, etc.) available on the
wp-plugins web server also.

If for nothing else, think data redundancy.

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:01:35 -0600, Alex King <alex at alexking.org> wrote:
> This can be solved fairly easily. Set up a CRON job to run every night
> that checks each download. If a download can't be found, it hides that
> plugin (and sends and e-mail notification to the author) until the
> download link is fixed.
> 
> --Alex
> 
> http://www.alexking.org/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 16, 2004, at 10:53 AM, Danny Dawson wrote:
> 
> > The problem with this approach: lots of dead links.  People change
> > their own websites much more frequently than the wp-plugins website
> > should be expected to change, and it can make it nearly impossible to
> > keep track of where to find a plugin
> 
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Danny Dawson
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