Posts by mordauk

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@colorit It is up to the plugin/theme developers to include an updater, so the best thing you can do is try and encourage authors without updates to include one

My plugin is available: https://easydigitaldownloads.com

I wrote a tutorial series on how to do it (paid members only, sorry): http://pippinsplugins.com/series/user-submitted-image-galleries/

You can see the public gallery system created through my tutorial series here: http://cgcookie.com/blender/gallery/ (some modifications of course).

That only works for Theme Forest themes, not Code Canyon plugins.

iapcsolutions said

mordauk said
Having an option to notify all buyers will never happen as it makes it far to easy to spam buyers with unsolicited emails.

I disagree. As a buyer I want to be notified of updates. Why not have a checkbox on the authors update page that says “notify buyers of this CRITICAL update” or something like that….

Yes I would as well but Envato will not implement it because there are far too many sellers that would abuse the feature and use it to send out advertisements of their other plugins to buyers.

kreatura said
Also, it worth to mention that this issue is more like a WordPress issue rather than a plugin issue. We did assume that WP won’t let request through by visitors without permission to open the plugin page. If WP would check the permissions properly, it could never happen. And you have to understand that there is a lot of automatic subroutines in a framework which aren’t documented, so we never get a chance to know about this can cause problems.

That’s not true. WordPress does perform security checks on plugin pages, but only if you have registered those pages using the WordPress API (add_submenu_page() in this case).

If your code that processes add/edit/delete requests in your plugin are outside of your function that renders the admin page, you must perform your own security checks.

As your plugin is extremely popular, you should also absolutely have an auto update notification integrated. These are not difficult to build and there are quite a few resources (I wrote one of them) that show you how to do it.

Having an option to notify all buyers will never happen as it makes it far to easy to spam buyers with unsolicited emails.

Confirmed, thanks!

That’s great!

I am also getting taken to the item page, however. Tested with two different items.

That’s not possible, except with some advanced rewrites.