Plugin removed from WordPress plugin directory?

[danyork]

Hi. I noticed that this plugin is no longer available at the URL of:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-updater/

Did someone remove it from the directory? Or is there some kind of error going on?

Is UCF no longer interested in supporting this plugin?

Thanks,
Dan

[abaumer]

Just noticed that as well. I also was just in the process of setting this up myself and now I'm stuck without it.

Anyone have any alternatives?

A

[danyork]

abaumer - you can always just do "Download ZIP" from the main page at https://github.com/UCF/Theme-Updater or get one of the tagged versions at https://github.com/UCF/Theme-Updater/releases

I would think you could upload that ZIP as a plugin and it should work fine.

That helps get the plugin working now... but doesn't obviously solve the longer-term issue of needing a plugin that continues to be maintained and evolves with WordPress.

[abaumer]

Yeah. I don't know what I was thinking. Got that working. Thanks.

Just hoping for a supported option like you.

A

[notslang]

Just noticed this too. I can confirm that http://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-updater/ is still broken. What's up with this?

[danyork]

I was recently alerted to another plugin, https://github.com/afragen/github-updater , that seems to have merged the code from this one here from UCF in with some code from another plugin to create a working system. There is a note in the documentation page, though, that the plugin is not allowed in the WordPress.org plugin directory (but no explanation). Anyway, that may be another option for folks.

[jazzsequence]

@danyork Actually, there's a full discussion about why it's now allowed in WordPress.org here: afragen/git-updater#34

The same issues would probably be true for this project also.

[danyork]

Ah, thanks. That probably is WHY this plugin was removed from the WordPress.org repository. In fact, you could pretty much see that here from one of the people involved with WordPress.org :

afragen/git-updater#7 (comment)

And Andy Fragen clarified a bit more right above that:

afragen/git-updater#7 (comment)

Given all of that, I'll close this issue because it's clear that the plugin will NOT be allowed back in to the WordPress.org repository.

Thanks, everyone!