Comments on: Simplify Wordpress Updates with Subversion

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:39:22 +0000

@Nick Carter – I too have my doubts about the automatic updater but from what I have read it works well. I’d have to fully understand how it works and what file permissions are required before I turn it on.

I haven’t used to markdown plugin before, but it looks like something worth trying. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Nick Carter

Nick Carter — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:10:21 +0000

@Bill – The WordPress Upgrader does sound pretty attractive – much like the existing plugin upgrader. I doubt I’ll ever turn on automatic upgrades, but it’s an excellent addition!

I noticed the markdown plugin was listed as a file to be deleted with each upgrade, I hope it gets replaced with the new one and not simply deleted, as I’ve started using it recently!

Thanks for pointing this out!

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:57:10 +0000

@Ryan – Thanks for dropping by. If I remember correctly, the automatic upgrade process for plugins requires you to have FTP access to your server. Whilst I could install it, it isn’t something I really want to do.

Before starting to manage your blog using subversion, I definitely recomend looking at the automatic upgrade of the core code that will be available in 2.7. I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to continue using subversion or go with the new updater. I’ll be sure to post again when I reach a decision.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:24:10 +0000

Bill, cool stuff. Will definitely start upgrading WP versions using SVN – have used it a few times for development reasons, and so this should be pretty simple to get into the habit of.

Though, I don’t know if upgrading plugins this way makes much sense when you can upgrade them automatically (and quickly) via WordPress’ backend.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:00:11 +0000

@Nick Carter - I'd hold off updating your setup to use Subversion for managing your Wordpress installation. With the release of Wordpress 2.7 just around the corner, it may be worth reading up on the automatic upgrade feature.

By: Nick Carter

Nick Carter — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:38:52 +0000

I’ve taken to updating my theme via subversion but haven’t, as yet, started grabbing the app itself that way. Dunno why. May do so soon!

Thanks for a nice little read!

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:22:53 +0000

@盛荣祖 - 对不起我不懂。

By: 盛荣祖

盛荣祖 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:08:53 +0000

WOW！比尔你写的这是什么?

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:08:23 +0000

@John - Unless I'm missing a trick, subversion would attempt to merge the updated quicktags.js with your modified copy. Without trying it I wouldn't want to speculate as to the results. There are a couple of plugins that allow you to add quicktags to the editor and I'm assuming that these would do so without modifying the quicktags.js file directly. These pages should give more information:

AddQuicktag Plugin
Lorelle on Customizing Your WordPress Quicktag Buttons
WP-AddQuicktag

By: John

John — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:54:21 +0000

Thanks for the reply! I have only recently started using my DH shell account, not because I don’t know how (I was raised on DOS and batch files, so unix isn’t too mystifying), but because I never had much reason to. This could give me one more reason.

I’m no programmer, so I don’t do any extensive changes to the WP core code or anything ridiculous like that. I just like to use my custom version of the javascript quicktags file (I don’t use rich text formatting), and it’s annoying that it’s always being overwritten when I upgrade…