/amazed-blog-so-widgets

Amazed Blog SiteOrigin Widgets is a simple WordPress widgets collection for blog sites.

Primary LanguagePHP

Amazed Blog SiteOrigin Widgets

Amazed Blog SiteOrigin Widgets is a WordPress widgets collection curated for Amazed Blog.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/amazed-blog-so-widgets directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through 'Plugins' screen in WordPress.

Building

This will compile CSS using TailwindCSS CLI. It watches changes and rebuilds the CSS file accordingly.

  1. Install NodeJS.
  2. Browse to plugin folder or clone the git repository.
  3. Change the development site URL under scripts > watch in package.json to e.g. https://boilerplate.ddev.site.
  4. Run npm install & npm run build.

Updating

The plugin uses WP GitLab Updater to handle automatic update checks. The script pulls the most recent tag from the repository.

  1. Edit plugin version e.g. Version: 1.0.4 in the plugin header under amazed-blog-so-widgets.php & commit with a message e.g. Version bump
  2. List commits & check the commit hash for Step #1 by running git log --pretty=oneline. Get/copy the first 7 character from the string e.g. f52a237.
  3. Run git tag -a 1.0.4 f52a237 -m "Version updated to 1.0.4".
  4. Run git push -u origin master.
  5. Run git push origin --tags.

Notes

  1. To be able to use or display category images install Categories Images.
  2. To be able to update to the latest version, please ensure that the plugin folder name is amazed-blog-so-widgets not amazed-blog-so-widgets-master or amazed-blog-so-widgets-1.0.4. The updater seems to have an issue when the folder structure doesn't match the ones indicated in includes/updater.php file.