Document a way to update the last available version of a plugin manually

May comes in very handy to quickly test a plugin in a production like environment before it reaches a greater world.

> This magic trick comes from @Chocobozzz himself, who passed it on to @JohnXLivingston, who then passed it down to me.
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PeerTube plugins and themes should be published on [NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/) so that PeerTube indexes take into account your plugin (after ~ 1 day). An official plugin index is available on [packages.joinpeertube.org](https://packages.joinpeertube.org/api/v1/plugins), with no interface to present packages.
> The official plugin index source code is available at https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/plugin-index
## Write a plugin/theme
Steps:
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Every time you want to publish another version of your plugin/theme, just update the `version` key from the `package.json`
and republish it on NPM. Remember that the PeerTube index will take into account your new plugin/theme version after ~24 hours.
> If you need to force your plugin update on a specific __PeerTube__ instance, you may update the latest available version manually:
> ```sql
> UPDATE "plugin" SET "latestVersion" = 'X.X.X' WHERE "plugin"."name" = 'plugin-shortname';
> ```
> You'll then be able to click the __Update plugin__ button on the plugin list.
### Unpublish
If for a particular reason you don't want to maintain your plugin/theme anymore