Comments on: Changelog Generator For WordPress Plugins

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:54:50 +0000

Yes, I was thinking it would be useful if there was a “What’s new?” link in each plugin update notification that you could click to see a changelog and decide whether you need to upgrade right away.

Okay, changed the form to GET.

The changelog isn’t “trimmed”. The script pulls the version information from /tags/ (it would be hugely inefficient to parse every single changeset and check the Version field in the plugin header), so it doesn’t work very well for plugins that do everything in the /trunk/, like Admin Drop-down Menu.

By: Ozh

Ozh — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:25:00 +0000

Couple of thoughts:
- allow GET for easier bookmarking
- is the changelog trimmed? For instance checking “ozh-admin-drop-down-menu” I don’t get it all

By: Ozh

Ozh — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:55:14 +0000

Awesome, I was waiting for someone to do exactly this :)

Now, package as a plugin that will pull changelogs on the fly and display in the Manage Plugins page? :)