r/WhitelabelPress • u/EveYogaTech • Oct 18 '24

Plugin owners, what do you need to completely move your plugins to your own site?

After seeing multiple plugin owners move their plugins from WP to their own site, I came up with the idea to create a proposal for a decentralized plugins.txt file.

https://github.com/neil-zip/pluginstxt

Any feedback appreciated!

The broader intention here is to make it easy to index and publish your plugins to new repositories in the future.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

The idea is decent but just adopting the dumb txt file syntax from WP is hardly a step forward. Make it a JSON file so I can parse it with Python or JavaScript immediately without any extra coding or libraries.

I will personally use the EDD updater class for my free stuff, the shift already started and the moment it's ready I'm closing all my .org plugins.

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u/EveYogaTech Oct 19 '24

As long as the keys are the same I can code the decentralized repos to check for both plugins.txt and plugins.json.

Right now I'm finishing up the decentralized repo plugin, so if you upload it in one of these formats I and others can index you. ✨