[wp-hackers] Plugin Site

[Alex King]

You may want to read through the archives on this subject, a lot of 
people don't care for that approach.

--Alex

http://www.alexking.org/


On Jul 16, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Danny Dawson wrote:

> 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
>>