Posts by pixelentity

revaxarts said
Does it work with plugins too? How users provide purchasecode and API key?

Nope, as far as i know, envato apis only handle theme updates for now.

Purchase code is not needed, only buyer username/api key. The class must be provided the values, how to get them from the end user is author business but one would tipically add a couple of extra fields in theme options page.

BF

Fixed link

sorry about that

Hello fellas,

everybody likes videos more than words, so first things first, here’s what we’re talking about: http://youtu.be/3UNA5AHEFF0

A while ago, envato released its wordpress toolkit which is great and we used it to include the automatic updates feature in our themes.

However, using a custom Theme_Upgrader turned out to be not such an easy task and we ended up adding quite some glue code. So, inspired by a recent thread here in the forums, we did a small research and found this

https://github.com/jeremyclark13/automatic-theme-plugin-update

In short, the author uses the “pre_set_site_transient_update_themes” to inject custom updates in the native WordPress update system, which is so great because all you need to do now is using the Envato API to

1. check if your theme has an update
2. get the download link
3. inject the above in the WordPress update system

So we created a small class using only class-envato-protected-api.php from the Envato toolkit and made available for all authors to download and use in their own theme: download link

BF

ThemeFusion said
Where is it?

http://themeforest.net/forums/thread/important-wp-author-announcement-envato-wordpress-toolkit/62650

Maybe i’m missing something here but why should authors pay for a 3rd party service when the envato wordpress toolkit is free and able to download the update from themeforest already ?

BF

duotive said
And now i have a question for you i generate the file with php and it seems that there is a better way. How do you pass the variables exactly?

here’s an example: we have a js script registered under the id “pe_theme_video”, after that, we call

wp_localize_script("pe_theme_video",'peFallBackPlayer',array("url"=>$url)));

WordPress creates the “peFallBackPlayer” variable (object) right before the related script (pe_theme_video) gets loaded:

<script type='text/javascript'>
/* <![CDATA[ */
var peFallBackPlayer = {"url":"http%3A%2F%2Flocal.lan%3A85%2Fwp%2Fneo%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fneo%2Fframework%2Fjs%2Fvideo%2Fjarisplayer.swf"};
/* ]]> */
</script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://local.lan:85/wp/neo/wp-content/themes/neo/framework/js/pe/jquery.pixelentity.video.js?ver=1346147951'></script>

Then, in the js file, you can fetch the value:

var fbp = decodeURIComponent(window.peFallBackPlayer.url);

BF

UXbarn said
What would you suggest about applying options from PHP to javascript codes?

http://ottopress.com/2010/passing-parameters-from-php-to-javascripts-in-plugins/

UXbarn said
I just tried the method of “special” style file like style.php and that works perfectly too.

i can hardly see any advantage in doing that.

with almost any server now supporting gz compression, a 8kb uncompressed css block would just add like like 1-2kb to the page.

BF

RubenBristian said
so if i have 200 lines of custom css code, should i add it to the header of each file?

yes.

that will still be way faster than loading another file.

To echo custom rules inside a style block of header is not a bad practice and also has absolutely zero impact on performances/load times while to write an external css file with custom values requires an additional server request which is far more costly in terms of resources.

BF