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Again, the problem with forking WP is wordpress.org. yes you can setup a new plugin/theme repository. The problem is how does someone who owns a plugin on .org
by sa752 2y ago
Again, the problem with forking WP is wordpress.org. yes you can setup a new plugin/theme repository.
The problem is how does someone who owns a plugin on .org validate their ownership on the new repository?
- gitaarik 2y agoWell, you can ask them to upload a particular file with a particular key to their plugin on WordPress.org. That way you can prove you have access, and you should be allowed ownership of the plugin on the fork.
- mysidia11 2y agoThe existing plugin list typically list the author name with a link to their homepage for each plugin. One method would be for someone to scrape and cache the existing plugin list along with each known plugin author's contact/home page information. When authors sign up for an account on the new site: have the signup process provide the user a "hash code" to insert anywhere they want into the HTML code or as a HTML comment or header on their homepage to confirm author access to the plugin page on the new site.