[wp-hackers] Re: Plugin Update Checker

[jason switzer]

On 4/3/07, ozgreg <wphackers at galleryembedded.com> wrote:
>
> Actually I would not agree with the automatic downloading purely because
> some plugin's (like mine - WPG2) have depend on external applications as
> well thus suddenly a new version has been automatically rolled in and things
> no longer work the way they should..
>
> I feel we need to be able to option within the serialisation of the plugin
> if autoupdating is possible or instead generate a link to the plugin project
> page with the wordpress extend plugin system.
>

By that I meant that I could click on something similar to Activate /
Deactivate to upgrade the plugin. I believe I discussed this on the
mailing-list at least once before. Your solution would simply be to not
click on the Update button until you are ready to do so.

-Jason