1 | | my apologies if I am not understanding this correctly ... doesn't the plugin still need to be activated in order to use the hook, if the plugin is deactivated, wordpress will always check the plugins repo and if a plugin of the same name exists will return that data? |
| 1 | my apologies if I am not understanding this correctly ... doesn't the plugin still need to be activated in order to use the hook, if the plugin is deactivated, wordpress will always check the plugins repo and if a plugin of the same name exists will return that data? |
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| 3 | I think wordpress would be more open if a plugin author could specify their own update URI, this would avoid namespace grabs just for the sole purpose of not having the repo interfere with and external updater .. see ticket #25314 |