SVN for Wordpress and its plugins

October 5, 2008 in cms, linux, shell scripts, software, w3 | No comments

Go to the root of your webserver and type

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ .

You need to have svn installed - if not yet done the following command should do this for you.

aptitude install subversion

If you want to update your Wordpress plugins remotely through your linux server, you have to install them through SVN. Go to your plugin-in folder (ususally: ../wp-content/plugins/) and type

svn propedit svn:externals .

(Please note that the period at the end is important).

Your editor of choice should now open and you have to integrate your wished plugins. Find below one example:

akismet http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk/
flickr-slideshow-wrapper http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/flickr-slideshow-wrapper/trunk
sociable http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sociable/trunk/
google_sm http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/google-sitemap-generator/trunk/
lightbox-2 http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/lightbox-2/trunk/
wp-security-scan http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-security-scan/trunk/
snapshot http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/snap-shots-for-wordpressorg/trunk/
syntaxhighlighter-plus http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/syntaxhighlighter-plus/trunk/
twitter-tools http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/twitter-tools/trunk/

Please not that I’m using here the ‘trunk’-version, which are the latest development and might contain bugs. You can alternatively specify /tags/XYZ/ - XYZ being the release version you want to install.

After having saved your new entry you have to go back to your root folder (e.g. by cd ../..) and then please type:

svn up

The system will now download the latest version(s) and you only have to (re-)activate your plugins within Wordpress.

A regular updating with ’svn up’ will keep your plugins updated.

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