[wp-hackers] Auto Update Plugins

[Otto]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Duane Storey <duanestorey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Otto - we have a plugin where the user can drop in (via FTP or whatever)
> custom icons that the plugin will use while displaying information on the
> blog.  Another example is CFORMS, where you can drop in a custom CSS style
> for your forms.   Right now when the plugin auto upgrades, all the icons
> they dropped in get deleted.  We need a place where they can put them so
> they know a) they belong to this plugin b) they won't get overwritten during
> an upgrade.

And that's fine. I'm just arguing that those files should be put into
the uploads folder, or a subfolder off of it.