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by crabique 632 days ago
How does one spin up a mirror of the entire WordPress.org registry, not to mention keeping up with plugin/theme updates that are uploaded there by the respective maintainers?

Furthermore, does WordPress even support custom resource registries?
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benwills 632 days ago
If I understand correctly, this is the SVN repository for all public WordPress.org plugins:

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/

If so, I'd imagine creating a mirror of the registry would start there.

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chuckadams 631 days ago
There's also https://themes.svn.wordpress.org. I started cloning them on my laptop, then realized I didn't have the free terabytes they likely would take.
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pluc 632 days ago
None of that is documented, if it's even supported at all. Beyond using network trickery to reverse-engineer API calls, I don't see how it can be expected that it should already be in place.

Does Matt really want to risk creating alternative repositories and losing the central role wp.org is providing (yes, free of charge)? What about plugin authors who want to ensure their stuff is available on all WordPress hosts, what will they have to do to push to all stores? WPEngine acquired some pretty popular plugins (acf, deliciousbrains), it'd be a shame to see them exclusively available outside of the wordpress.org ecosystem as a retaliation.

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FireBeyond 632 days ago
> Beyond using network trickery to reverse-engineer API calls, I don't see how it can be expected that it should already be in place

Don't worry, though, Matt has generously given them 72 whole hours to figure out exactly how to do it, and complete the whole mirroring process, too! Oh, he did that on a Friday afternoon, just before the weekend? Extra generous!

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