#wordpress 2018-11-21

2018-11-21 UTC
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[asuh] I know this isn’t good practice, but is there a way to hook into the WordPress Plugins management if you bundle a plugin inside of the theme folder? I got this idea earlier and wouldn’t do this unless I knew I could hook into that management system so that it appears like the rest of the installed plugins.
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[asuh] Bundling the plugins inside of the theme directory but still managed by WordPress could be a one stop shop of allowing the plugins and theme to coexist without the theme developer doing more work by separately installing all the pieces.
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petermolnar [asuh]: as far as I understand, WP really doesn't like that structure, just like it doesn't have the notion of dependencies in plugins/themes
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[pfefferle] Beside this, it would be very hard to also implement the updates and or to handle duplicates, in the case the user also installs the plugin by hand
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GWG Since this is slightly WordPress technical, in the upgrade to Post Kinds, I moved storing the metadata about a media file from the post to the attachment
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GWG Hi, jackjamieson
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GWG Oops, missed him
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GWG Hello, jackjamieson
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jackjamieson Hi GWG, How's it going?
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GWG I am off till Monday, hoping to get stuff done
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jackjamieson Excellent!
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jackjamieson I'm working on improving Yarns' aggregation today. It's coming along pretty well so far
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GWG Do you have any blockers?
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GWG The list for what is missing before an initial release?
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jackjamieson Still a few parsing bugs - I'm going to diagnose a bit this afternoon and will let you know what I find out
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jackjamieson The improvements to the polling algorithm seem fairly straightforward. And I think websub can be a post release update
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jackjamieson So basically just some parsing fixes and testing, improve the polling, and then documentation
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jackjamieson And actually I've never posted something to the wordpress plugin repository before, so I'll have to see if there's any steps I'm missing for that
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GWG Well, I would suggest you release a beta version and have some community members test it out prior to trying to get it into the repo
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jackjamieson Good call
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jackjamieson I've got to run to a talk now, unfortunately, but I'll be back on later this afternoon. Tomorrow I'm tied up all day, and I should have some more time for Yarns on Friday, too
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jackjamieson ttyl
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jackjamieson Actually I can stay on IRC. I'll just be a bit slow to respond
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jackjamieson GWG: I just created a milestone to keep track of remaining Yarns issues before a first release
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GWG I may also want to submit some PRs
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GWG But I am holding off for a stable point
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jackjamieson Sounds great. It's getting close
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GWG jackjamieson, adding Issues to Parse This for you
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jackjamieson GWG: Thanks, I'll take a look and will also add some issues or add to existing issues later today
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GWG I want to document for when I next work on it
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jackjamieson Great - I want to do a bit more testing before I post issues so I can (a) figure out if it's just something I can fix in Yarns, and (b) organize things so it's easy to understand
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