PeterBooker

WordPress Plugins Repository Research

This is an overview of my research into the WordPress Plugins Repository while looking at how external tools can work with it, primarily through SVN.

Some Data

Between 2017/01/14 and 2018/01/14 there were approximately 227,998 revisions (changes). Spread equally this results in:

• 4,385 / week.
• 626 / day.

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<?php

function prefix_get_newsletter_posts() {

    // Get the cached data if available, if not fetch it using the WP REST API
    if ( false === ( $newsletter_posts_data = get_transient( 'prefix_newsletter_posts' ) ) ) {

        // Tag ID for the Posts you want from the Newsletter site.
        $tag_id = 12;

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<?php
/*
 * Query the wordpress.org Plugins API
 */

$query = array(
    'action' => 'query_plugins',
    'request' => serialize(
            (object) array(
                'page' => 1,

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<?php
/*
 * Converts Tweet text urls, account names and hashtags into HTML links.
 * Accepts return data from Twitter API (v1.1)
 */
function kebo_twitter_linkify( $tweets ) {
    
    foreach ( $tweets as $tweet ) {

        $hash_length = 45; // Length of HTML added to hashtags

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<?php

/*
* Display BBC News Headlines
*/
function pb_display_news() {
 
    // Get the News data
    $headlines = pb_get_news();

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<?php

/*
* Refreshes the Transient data.
*/
function pb_refresh_news() {
 
    // Make HTTP request to BBC News API.
    $response = wp_remote_request( 'http://api.bbcnews.appengine.co.uk/stories/headlines' );
 

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<?php

function pb_get_news() {

    /*
     * Get transient and if expired refresh data immediately
     */
    if ( false === ( $news = get_transient( 'pb_bbc_news' ) ) ) {

        // Uses BBC News API to fetch new data

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<?php
/*
 * Background Caching with Transients
 * Using BBC News API as an example
 */

function pb_get_news() {

    /*
     * Get transient and if expired refresh data immediately

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<?php
/*
 * Plugin Auto Updates Whitelist
 * Allows Forced Updates for listed Plugin Slugs
 */
function prefix_forced_update_whitelist_plugins( $update, $item ) {

    // Examples, please add plugin slugs that you trust.
    $plugins = array (
        'jetpack', 'wordpress-seo', 'plugin-slug',

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<?php
/*
 * Provide fallback output incase no Menu is selected.
 */
public static function fallback( $args = array() ) {

    /*
     * No content for left side Fallback
     */
    if ( 'left' == $args['menu_class'] ) {