facetwp/github-updater-lite

Drop-in support for GitHub automatic updates

GitHub Updater (Lite)

Enable automatic updates for your GitHub-hosted WordPress plugins., _(*1)

This is a variant of Andy Fragen's excellent GitHub Updater plugin. If you need all the bells and whistles (BitBucket, private repositories, etc), please use Andy's plugin!, _(*2)

Usage

Add the following line to your plugin's meta information, replacing owner/repo with your public repository., _(*3)

GitHub URI: owner/repo

Then, add github-updater.php to your plugin folder, and include() it from within your main plugin file. Make sure it loads before the plugins_loaded action fires., _(*4)

include( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/github-updater.php' );

The code fetches git tags to determine whether updates are available., _(*5)

That's it, have fun!, _(*6)