Updating Snipfire

Your snippets aren't stored in the plugin folder, so updating Snipfire or Snipfire Pro never touches them.

The free plugin #

Snipfire comes from snipfirewp.com, not the WordPress.org directory, but it updates like any other plugin:

• When a new version is out, WordPress shows it on Dashboard → Updates and on the Plugins screen. Click Update now.
• To update without thinking about it, click Enable auto-updates next to Snipfire on the Plugins screen. WordPress then installs new versions itself.
• View details links to what's new in each version. It's also in the changelog.

How Snipfire finds new versions #

Twice a day, Snipfire asks snipfirewp.com which version its download link serves. It's a single request for the file name, not the file, and it sends nothing about your site. The download itself only happens when you (or WordPress's automatic updates) update.

Coming from 0.15 or earlier #

Update checks arrived in Snipfire 0.16. A site on 0.15 or earlier can't know about them yet, so update it once by hand:

1. Download the zip from snipfirewp.com/download.
2. Go to Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now.
3. WordPress says the plugin is already installed: click Replace current with uploaded.

From then on, updates show up in WordPress.

Turn the update check off #

Add this line to wp-config.php:

define( 'SNIPFIRE_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK', true );

Snipfire then makes no requests to snipfirewp.com at all, and you update by uploading the zip as above. Developers can also use the snipfire_disable_update_check filter: see PHP hooks.

A copy of Snipfire that's a Git checkout (the plugin folder has a .git folder) never checks, so an update can't overwrite your working copy.

Snipfire Pro #

Snipfire Pro updates from the Plugins screen, like any other plugin, while your licence is active. See Licence.

Each Pro version needs a recent enough free plugin. Snipfire Pro 0.16 needs Snipfire 0.16.0 or later. With an older Snipfire, WordPress shows Snipfire Pro needs Snipfire 0.16.0 or later (this site has …). Update Snipfire from snipfirewp.com; until then the Pro features are off. Your snippets keep running, and their Pro settings stay safely off until you update Snipfire. So update Snipfire first, then Pro.

The Snipfire Pro zip from your account unzips to a folder named snipfire-pro-premium. That's expected, and Snipfire 0.16.1 and later load Pro from it before snippets run.