Auto Updates

Auto-updates

Bext for WordPress ships outside the wordpress.org directory, so it brings its own update channel — giving normal-plugin installs the same "update available" badge and one-click update as a wordpress.org plugin.

How it works

1. The plugin polls a self-hosted manifest (JSON), by default https://wp-plugins.inklura.fr/api/update?slug=bext-wp, and caches the result for 12 hours.
2. If the manifest's version is newer than the installed one, it injects an entry into WordPress's update_plugins transient → Plugins → Installed Plugins shows the update, the one-click update works, and the "View details" modal is populated.
3. The update package is a GitHub release asset (https://github.com/webdesign29/bext-wp/releases/latest/download/bext-wp.zip). The updater normalises the extracted folder so the update installs back into wp-content/plugins/bext-wp/.

WordPress (cron / Plugins screen)
   │  GET https://wp-plugins.inklura.fr/api/update?slug=bext-wp   (cached 12 h)
   ▼
{ "version": "0.4.3", "download_url": ".../releases/latest/download/bext-wp.zip", … }
   │  newer than installed?
   ▼
update_plugins transient ──► one-click update ──► ZIP from GitHub ──► installed

Must-use installs

Must-use plugins can't update through wp-admin, so the updater doesn't register for them. Update a fleet of mu-plugin installs with the deploy script:

sudo bin/deploy-fleet.sh        # re-copy the latest into every site

Configuration

// Point at a different manifest (e.g. your own mirror):
define( 'BEXT_WP_UPDATE_URL', 'https://updates.example.com/bext-wp.json' );
// …or via filter:
add_filter( 'bext/update_manifest_url', fn() => 'https://updates.example.com/bext-wp.json' );

Releasing (maintainers)

1. Bump the version (bext-wp.php header + BEXT_WP_VERSION, mu-loader.php) and CHANGELOG.md.
2. Commit, push, then:

   bin/build-zip.sh /tmp/bext-wp.zip
   gh release create vX.Y.Z /tmp/bext-wp.zip --title "vX.Y.Z" --notes "…"

3. Bump version (+ changelog) in the manifest source on wp-plugins.inklura.fr (src/lib/manifest.ts) and redeploy that site.

The manifest download_url is the stable releases/latest/download/bext-wp.zip, so it never changes between releases.