As great as the official WordPress theme and plugin directories are, there are times when you don’t want to use them for distributing your plugin or theme. Maybe it’s because you are selling your plugins or themes, or maybe you just want to keep them to yourself, making them only available within your organization or group of friends. But what about updates?If you are the only user, just uploading the plugin or theme manually works quite well. But when you have more users than that, using the Updates admin page inside WordPress would come in handy.The WordPress Updates functionality has been designed with just the official WordPress plugin and theme directories in mind, but no worries: WordPress has actions and filters that make it possible for us to hook into that functionality and add a server of our own in the mix.What You’ll LearnIn this first tutorial in the series, we will start by creating a WordPress plugin to turn your website into a license management server
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Create a License Controlled Theme and Plugin Update System, Part 1: The License Manager Plugin