[wp-hackers] Private theme updates from SVN

[Matt Slocum]

I wrote my own theme updater once. I made a class that extends off of the
Theme_Upgrader class, and another class that extends off the
Theme_Installer_Skin class. In the Theme_Upgrader class I overrided the
upgrade function and put my own modified version of it, but I didn't change
much.

Then you just need another function or two that you hook onto an admin hook
that will run a remote_post to your private repository (every hour or
something). Parse the request and pass it to your upgrader class in the
same style as the Theme_Upgrader normally uses and let WP do the rest of
the work.

Sorry if that was a little vague,
Matt

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Pauli Price <pauli.price at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you implement something like this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/842715/149060 - where the solution involves
> using SVN Export Directory functionality to download the source to a local
> folder, and then zip the directory, on the fly - you could then use the zip
> file in the normal update process.
>
> No experience with it - just interested enough in the problem to do some
> Googling to see if I could figure it out.  YMMV, etc.
>
> Pauli
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM, David Law <
> wp-hackers at google-adsense-templates.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:39:24 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > >Thanks for all the suggestions about alternative Source Control and
> using
> > Beanstalk for SVN (we actually do that already)
> > >
> > >I am more looking for a pull based solution, where the WP install itself
> > uses the built in theme update mechanism to get the update.
> > >
> > >This link:
> >
> http://w-shadow.com/blog/2011/06/02/automatic-updates-for-commercial-themes/fromotto looks like the best starting point.
> > >
> >
> > I use the above successfully with a premium theme I develop (Stallion
> > SEO theme) with thousands of users with no problems reported so far,
> > had two updates since adding it to Stallion so a lot of websites
> > updated that way.
> >
> > Hooks into the WordPress updates and looks/acts like a WordPress
> > repository update to your theme users.
> >
> > Can take a little while for the updates to show up in your Dashboard
> > so don't jump to the conclusion it failed if it doesn't show an update
> > the moment you add the code.
> >
> > David
> > --
> > http://www.stallion-theme.com/ Stallion WordPress SEO Theme
> > http://www.stallion-theme.com/stallion-wordpress-seo-plugin Stallion
> > WordPress SEO Plugin
> >
> > >If anyone has seen or has any code that can access a SVN server, that
> > would be the best, but we might have to roll our own,
> > >
> > >thanks,
> > >
> > >Andrew
> > >
> > >
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