Premium version not available via composer

[ivuorio]

I am working for a customer whom would like to use the premium version of your plugin. The site is maintained via version control so manually installing plugins is not possible. There seems to be no way to install the premium via composer or am I missing something? Why is this?

[rlankhorst]

Hi @ivuorio,
As you probably know free is already available with composer. But the premium plugin is hosted on a private repo.
I don't see a way to publish this through composer that is connected to the easy digital downloads licensing system. But I'm no composer expert, so let me know if you have any suggestions.

[vtamm]

@rlankhorst a developer from Spatie has written a two-part blog series (link to part one) which explains how you can set up something like this with very little effort.

I'll second this request, not only because it would simplify the deployment of Complianz across the 20+ sites we maintain for our clients, but also because any serious PHP/WP agency should be using Composer for their clients' websites, and if you as a plugin author provide us as agencies with a way to install your plugin via Composer instead of us having to download it as a zip with every new relewase, we're going to pick your plugin over the competition every time.

It also signals to all other professional PHP devs that a) you know what you are doing since everyone should be using Composer in 2024 and b) that you care about making it easy for us to use your product.

[rlankhorst]

Interesting read! It doesn't look like it's something I can spin up in a morning, so I'll add it to the roadmap. We'll certainly implement this, but can't make any promises yet when that will be.

[rlankhorst]

Looking at the available solutions I also came across this one:https://github.com/lubusIN/composer-edd-plugin
It might be something that can be used until we have a satis environment set up. Or it might even make the satis solution superfluous. Let me know what you think.
https://lubus.in/blog/composer-edd-plugin-install-wordpress-pro-offerings-powered-by-edd-software-licensing-3863

[chimok]

@rlankhorst I'll wait for that too :)
We're using Wordpress with Bedrock, a very popular wordpress composer based boilerplate with almost 10 millions users.

You may also check how Yoast doing it, Borlabs supports composer too. The best and correct way is have your own composer repro. That is the offizial way: https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/handling-private-packages.md

But i installed already a lot of composer unsupported plugins with franz/installer https://github.com/ffraenz/private-composer-installer .....it downloads the passport protected zip in our git pipeline and create a build. Composer is really extremely flexible, it's able to handle almost any use case.