Plugins Folder Name > based on meta download_url not slug

[yahniselsts]

Plugins Folder Name > based on meta download_url not slug

[YahnisElsts]

Chances are, the apparent connection between the download_url and the folder name is a red herring. The WordPress update installer doesn't care what the URL is as long as it points to a valid ZIP file with the right directory structure. Also, I use dynamic download URLs for one of my plugins and have never encountered this problem despite having more than 10,000 active installs and 5+ new releases in the past year.

Here are a few things to check first:

1. The plugin slug
Make sure to pass the correct plugin slug to the update checker constructor. The slug should match the desired plugin folder name, and it should match the slug value in the JSON data (if any). If you omit the slug, the update checker will try to determine it automatically and occasionally get it wrong.

Example (direct initialization):

$myUpdateChecker = new PluginUpdateChecker(
    'http://example.com/metadata-url-here', //Metadata URL
    __FILE__,  //Main plugin file name
    'plugin-slug'
);

Example (factory):

$myUpdateChecker = PucFactory::buildUpdateChecker(
    'http://example.com/metadata-url-here', //Metadata URL
    __FILE__,  //Main plugin file name
    'plugin-slug'
);

2. The update ZIP file layout

The root of the ZIP file must contain a single folder whose name matches your plugin slug. All plugin files should go in that folder. For example:

/plugin-slug
    /includes
    ...other files...
    plugin-slug.php
    readme.txt

Any other folder/directory layout - like putting all plugin files at the root of the ZIP file - will typically result in the update installer leaving the folder name at the default value, which just happens to be index.tmp.

[baden03]

Thank you for your quick reply. The problem was--in fact--that I zipped up the files, not the plugin folder. Once I zipped up the FOLDER all was good in the plugin updating neighborhood.

Your plugin is really quite something special. Thank you for sharing it.

[YahnisElsts]

Sure, glad to help.