{"id":136,"date":"2007-10-21T03:29:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/21\/plugins-structure-changes\/"},"modified":"2007-10-21T03:39:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:39:43","slug":"plugins-structure-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/21\/plugins-structure-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugins Structure Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All my plugins will undergo a structure change to accommodate the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.wp-plugins.org\/\">Official WordPress Plugins Repository<\/a>. This is also a much requested feature for most of my users as they complained that the zip file generated by WordPress Plugins Repository was 2 level deep and they got some issues when installing the plugin and the official plugin update notification will not work.<\/p>\n<p>As posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/ideas\/topic.php?id=891&#038;replies=1\">WordPress Ideas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSome of us the older plugin authors are facing problem\/hassle of restructuring the our plugin structure as our plugin name need not necessary follow the official plugin name folder naming convention.<\/p>\n<p>And when user download the file from the repository, it will be the &lt;official plugin name&gt;\\&lt;plugin name&gt;\\&lt;plugin&gt;.php\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As this is a major change, things will break, so I need you guys help to help me test it. The first plugin that rolls out this structure update will be WP-Polls.<\/p>\n<p>The structure change for wp-polls involves:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Using \/wp-polls\/ folder instead of \/polls\/<\/li>\n<li>Using wp-polls.php instead of polls.php<\/li>\n<li>Using wp-polls-widget.php instead of polls-widget.php<\/li>\n<li>Replacing all the old references with the new references stated above<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>Please kindly post any bugs found in <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.lesterchan.net\/index.php?board=15.0\">WP-Polls Support Forum<\/a>. Thank You.<\/p>\n<p>I will roll out this updates to the rest of the plugins in December 2007\/January 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my plugins will undergo a structure change to accommodate the Official WordPress Plugins Repository. This is also a much requested feature for most of my users as they complained that the zip file generated by WordPress Plugins Repository was 2 level deep and they got some issues when installing the plugin and the official &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/21\/plugins-structure-changes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plugins Structure Changes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plugins","category-wp-polls","tag-beta"],"views":9976,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}