Plugin Central is a WordPress plugin management add-on to automatically install and update WordPress plugins.
Plugin Central Dashboard View. Active Plugins are in Bold
Features:
- Install plugins directly by typing the Name of plugin or URL to the plugin zip file!
- Multiple-plugin install feature allows you to move your plugins from one blog to another
- Displays status of out-dated plugins on the Dashboard
- Option to update all out-dated plugins with a single click!
Download
Installation & Usage
- Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
- You will see the new item on your Dashboard
Options panel allows you to install multiple plugins by name, directly from WordPress repository! Type the plugin names and click "Install Plugins".
You can also list all of your plugins (or only active). By pasting this list into the install window on another blog you can basically move all of your plugins from one blog to another. More precisely the latest versions of selected plugins will be installed on the target blog.
Dashboard will list status of plugin in need to update and offer installation of all of them at once with a single click.
The plugin will not work together with WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin at this time, I am working on fixing this issue.
Screenshots
Plugin Central Options Panel
Changelog
v2.3
- NEW: Completely rewritten the plugin
- NEW: Using core function to update multiple files
v2.0
- Support for WP2.8
v1.31
- Added plugin delete and ignore updates
v1.20:
- Added a new function for handling files
- Moved the options page to plugin administration
Apr 07th, 2008 v1.1
- Added support to install plugins directly from URL
Apr 03rd, 2008 v1.0
- Initial release
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141 Comments
Version 2.3 is out today
I need facility of uploading plugin file from my PC as I keep some plugin in in zipped from on my PC. ( as available in "One Click Plugin Updater"
Thanks you a lot, if this can be done. Just because of this feature I have to use this other plugin also for plugin management
Great Plug-In; seems to be working well across several sites.
Would love to be able to export plugin list to a page or post (with links to plugin sites) so I can promote the plugins I use.
I have had the same problem described by ezaton. After upgrading wordpress to 2.8.4 and plugin central to 2.2.1, whenever I try to update a plugin, I get the standard wordpress upgrade info requesting FTP information. I miss the old functionality as I don't run an FTP server on my site and now have to upload plugins manually with scp. Advice is appreciated.
I see your newest version includes a link to the changelog in the dashboard, how about integrating the whole changelog there like this plugin does for the plugins page?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/changelogger/
Good idea, implemented in 2.2
lol. thanx, that was a prompt and positive answer :-)
until now I had to either go to the changelog page or use the other plugin additionally to yours. Looking forward to 2.2
Ever since the latest update it requires FTP or FTPS login information. Earlier it used to work through direct get (and it has full permissions where it should).
Please advice.
Thanks.
Ez
I use suPHP on my server and it works without problems. So it's probably not suPHP but anyway worth digging up.
well, I do a chown -R web7:client1 web/ chmod -R 755 web/ and then all plugin updates, installations and wordpress upgrades work. AFTERWARDS of course I need to set the permissions and ownerships straight again. Will try and post to the trac, I know people with suPhp installations have these problems.
I think you should post that example on WordPress trac (your wordpress update will not work too).
well, I just made a test.I installed a plugin (yahoo...) with plugin central and here are the permissions of the new installed plugin compared to an old one (zdcomments...):
drwx------ 3 web7 client1 4096 2009-06-27 15:40 yahoo-messenger-status-plugin
drwxr-xr-x 3 web7 client1 4096 2009-01-21 21:30 zdcommentswidget
and here are the file permissions:
myserver:/var/www/myblog/web/wp-content/plugins# ls -al yahoo-messenger-status-plugin/
total 204
drwx------ 3 web7 client1 4096 2009-06-27 15:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 73 web7 client1 4096 2009-06-27 15:40 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 web7 client1 35147 2009-06-27 15:40 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 web7 client1 1053 2009-06-27 15:40 readme.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 web7 client1 89868 2009-06-27 15:40 screenshot-1.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 web7 client1 33726 2009-06-27 15:40 screenshot-2.png
drwx------ 2 web7 client1 4096 2009-06-27 15:40 status_images
-rw-r--r-- 1 web7 client1 287 2009-06-27 15:40 ym_status_control.phtml
-rw-r--r-- 1 web7 client1 2965 2009-06-27 15:40 ym_status.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 web7 client1 423 2009-06-27 15:40 YmStatus.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 web7 client1 4263 2009-06-27 15:40 ym_status_settings.phtml
-rw-r--r-- 1 web7 client1 706 2009-06-27 15:40 ym_status_widget.phtml
myserver:/var/www/myblog/web/wp-content/plugins# ls -al zdcommentswidget/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 3 web7 client1 4096 2009-01-21 21:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 73 web7 client1 4096 2009-06-27 15:40 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 web7 client1 4096 2009-01-21 21:30 lang
-rwxr-xr-x 1 web7 client1 708 2009-01-21 21:30 readme.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 web7 client1 7616 2009-01-21 21:30 zd_CommentsWidget.php
myserver:/var/www/myblog/web/wp-content/plugins#
I am running on suPhp and the way your plugin used to upload stuff it worked perfectly, with this new way, its unusable :-( the permissions should be 755 :-(
ovidiu: theoretically yes, but the plugn is already too complicated due to constant changes plugin updates work in different wp versions. So if detected version is >=2.8 I call wordpress updater and hope that will provide future compatibility as well. perhaps it is better idea to submit a ticket to wp and see why core updater produces unusable files for you.
thank a lot of bro. just now 'plugin central' can be run under wp 2.8 :)
yes, I suspected as much.the wordpress functions, don't work for me. all plugins or themes I install, have absolutely the wrong permissions, while plugins I installed with your plugin had the right ones. wrong as in doesn't work and right as in works. I can't use your plugin anymore, i.e. I installed a plugin the other day, where the output looked horrible, than I checked the error log and found out, the .css file wasn't loaded but was giving a 403 error, permission denied or similar :-(
is there a reason you switched to the wordpress functions? any chance to get the old functionality back?
The latest version uses WP functions for handling plugin installation/updates so the result would be the same as WP did the upgrade.
it behaves a little weird for me too, seems to assign different permissions when installing new plugins, but before this upgrade it worked perfectly with wp 2.7
where there any changes?
Hi Vladimir -- I've updated to the current version of plugin central and now I get an error when I try to automatically install a plugin. Any thoughts?
besides, I still can't remove plugins from the ignored list using wpmu 2.7.1 it just says: Try again.
the downlaod link still gives me version 1.5.3... guess you are still uplaoding :-)
Version 2.0 out with support for 2.8 and some other goodies
all in seo file pclzip.lib.php wont upload this is the only file that is not going up . what to doo
Hi there Vladimir
Thanks for the plugin.
I am using wordpress 2.8 with this plugin, but i see that i am not abl eto delete any plugin that is installed using this softwrae.
can you suggest any way to delete it?
rgds
jason
great. I thoughts its just me doing thigns wrong ;-(
btw. does your plugin use the built in "update" scheme? or does your plugin do things different?
the reason I am asking, is that after using your plugin since it came along all was good, but using the wordpress built-in update seems to set the wrong permissions on the blgos I administer :-(
I can confirm it is not showing updates in 2.8 as they changed the update structure. When I have time I will upgrade the plugin.
Same here regarding WP 2.8 - as I have 20 WP blogs, all of which this great plugin has stopped working.
Best Regards,
Martin E
hello Vladimir,
unfortuantely the plugin doesn't show any upgrades anymore, for 3 blogs I have updated to 2.8
does it work for you on 2.8?
this has stopped working for me for quite a while, always getting this for any plugins:
Download failed.: name lookup timed out
Plugin upgrade Failed
Nice plugin, very helpful, easy to use, thanks.
Hi...
thanks for this great plugin. Works great for my websites since a long time.
But i have only one little question....
On one site the plugin remeber his passwort for the FTP server to update the plugins. On all other pages this doesn't work or i can't found the option again.
Any help for me? Thanks... and please keep up your good work.
This is very useful plugin, great work guys, thanks.
I have the same problem as Danial... All plugins uploaded through Plugin Central are owned by user apache.
Very productive plugin project
It's a very good plugin project. I shall try it out on my site.
Thats a great idea regarding an update all feature, this is one of the things I believe would help wordpress from a productivity point of view
Hi , Thanks For The Plugin , But I Have Problem With It .
When I Upload A Plugin With This Plugin Into My Host , Later I Cant Remove The Plugin , And I Cant Change The CHMOD Permission For Them .
Please Help Me , And Solve This Problem .
I also don't see the screen as per the screenshot above. Running Wordpress 2.7
I love the plugin central. It solved the upgrade automatically plugin on my wordpress blog. Maybe it was isuue of wp ver 2.7 .
Thank you
Not working , no update no delete
Thanks for the nifty plugin.
Here's something I noticed, though: I unintentionally listed a plugin I already had installed. Plugin Central went out, found it, and installed a new instance of that plugin.
It would be nice if it first checked to see if a particular plugin is installed, also checking for version numbers, and not install if the one it seeks out is the same as or older than an already installed plugin.
thanks for your good work!
-Teramis
In wordpress 2.7 we have the option to install the plugins from inside.
Do we still need this plugin.
This is a fantastic idea! Thank you very much!
Thanks for a great plugin. I love it and now install it before all others. To save me time, I want to install multiple plugins and when I click this link I get this error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare apu_handle_download() (previously declared in /home/content/l/e/u/leugs00/html/studioceramics/wp-content/plugins/plugin-central/plugin-central.php:12) in /home/content/l/e/u/leugs00/html/studioceramics/wp-content/plugins/plugin-central/plugin-central.php on line 16
Just thought I would let you know as I really love this plugin and know I will rely on it !
As another note: I also like how you have your contact details show on my admin panel, so if a problem like this comes up, I can go to your fabulous site. However, it takes me away from my admin panel. Would it be better to open all your links in a new window/tab (in the case of firefox)?
Many thanks again
Lori
Thanks for a great plugin. I love it and now install it before all others. To save me time, I want to install multiple plugins and when I click this link I get this error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare apu_handle_download() (previously declared in /home/content/l/e/u/leugs00/html/studioceramics/wp-content/plugins/plugin-central/plugin-central.php:12) in /home/content/l/e/u/leugs00/html/studioceramics/wp-content/plugins/plugin-central/plugin-central.php on line 16
Just thought I would let you know as I really love this plugin and know I will rely on it !
As another note: I also like how you have your contact details now on my admin panel, so if a problem like this comes up, I can go to your fabulous site. However, it takes me away from my admin panel. Would it be better to open all your links in a new window/tab (in the case of firefox)?
Many thanks again
Lori
Thanks for your great plugin.
Hi Vladimir, thanks for this great plugin... will try on several of my wordpress blogs
Thanks for your work, plugin central is amazing. I don't know how feasible it would be to include a search function? And maybe an "activate plugin" button?
Just throwing it out there...
Cheers,
Wil
This is really useful! Thank you so much for doing this.
i tried to upgrade and the following error. it appears permission on my server so i did change the wp-content folder to 777. it persist. please help!!
//------------------
//error log
//------------------
Wordpress automatic upgrade
Upgrades your wordpress installation automatically. If this plugin helped you, you can contribute towards plugin development by Donating to me.
TASK OUTPUT
TASK STATUS
We conducted some preliminary checks on your server. Below is the output
Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/spuck/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 99
//------------------
//end log
//------------------
xfanai[at]hotmail[dot]com
Anyway of selecting a .zip on my local drive?
I don't have FTP access to my server at work, so this would be handy.
Anyway of selecting a .zip on my local drive?
I don't have FTP access to my server at work, so this would be handy.
@Alex - It usually has to do with file permissions on your site. You can ask your hosting about that.
@mikemike - Try my Theme test drive plugin
@JOE - Yep, probably could do that when I find the time
Please help. I can no longer update plugins on my site. I get a page asking for ftp connection info (which I have never had to enter on other sites running the plugin central plugin). The ftp info is correct, but it cannot deactivate & remove the old plugin when trying to update it. I also cannot add new plugins. The only thing different betwen this & one of our other sites, is that the problematic one is running WP 2.6.2 & the other site is on WP 2.6.1
Any insight is most appreciated.
any chance the plugin will work for themes, too? I realize that the name is Plugin Central and not Theme Central. But I love the ability to install multiple plugins. I'm hoping you'll extend this functionality to themes.
Hi, can you make plugins activate after install.
Thank you :)
Tout ce que Vladimir fait, c'est magnifique !
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Everything Vladimir does, it's beautiful, useful,...
Thanks ;) !
Thomas, my Theme Test Drive allows you to upload theme from WordPress just like plugin central does that for plugins.
No FTP support in plan, as upcoming WP 2.7 it will have it all.
FTP support would be an excellent option. I run a couple of WP installs on IIS and Plugin Central doesn't behave the same as it does on Apache. Any tips on how I could get it functioning in IIS?
Thanks for the excellent plugin!
Hi there
I'll love to be able to get Themes too, as easy as I got plugins.
Thomas
Merci pour ce plugin magnifique ! Je ne peux plus m'en passer.
That's a really great plugin ! Thousand thanks to your creative brain
HI, Here is my wish list.
Pages are missing and the URL structure has not been set.and create about, etc, pages.
need images optimized
It does not describe navigation well
Subscription, contact and comment forms
Need to promote your blog in the niche with carnivals, competitions, etc
Work to get more inbound links through networking and linkbait
would like to build brand through different fonts and possibly reogranize theme to accomodate ads.
Network with other blogs to get ideas and hook up for traffic, mommy
blogs, celebrity blogs in particular.
Hi!
I think that this is the best plugin that exist!
It think that it will be nice uninstall pligins from plugin central.
Sorry my bad english!
Hi there -
It would be good to have a feature whereby you can specify the path of your WordPress installation.
Whenever I try to auto-update a plugin (using Plugin Central or just the normal WP 2.5+ feature), WordPress cannot find my installation, because on my server it is buried in a sub-directory.
If I were able to specify where the plugins file was when I am on the update.php page, the functionality would work for me.
Thanks,
Rob
best. plugin. ever.
Hi!
I just installed your very promising plugin at my site, but when I list the plugins (active or all) I get the names, but no links to make the update or download...
No errors, no warnings... simply no links to make actions :(
Any help would be very appreciated.
As someone who's been using WordPress back when it was in its beta stages, I have to say that has to be one of the best plugins I've seen, in all the time WP's been around. It's already saving me so much time. I hate getting into my FTP for a system that I usually don't have to do that for.
Great work. Thank you!
Feature Request:
How about adding upload from local computer ?
I really like the "ignore list" feature of your plugin, but I don't need the rest. I'd rather not have all that extra information on my dashboard. Have you made a plugin that only has that feature?
This is a great plug in :)
Does the new version of wordpress 2.6 offer this? I was about to download, but let me know, if this is already on WP 2.6 Thx!
Also how do you get your comments to show up in reverse order?
Drew: My plugin Theme Test Drive does just that among other things
This plug-in is fantastic, particularly the ease with which one can install a new plug-in by simply copying and pasting the URL. Similar functionality would be equally as handy for installing themes. Perhaps that would fall under a new and different plug-in. Either way, having a place to copy and paste the URL to install a plug-in and another one for installing themes should be standard on Wordpress.
Thanks for such a wonderful plugin. Saves a lot of time when setting up new installations of WordPress for clients and friends.
WordPress 2.6 is out any day now and it will feature integrated plugin delete option so I figured no point in adding that now.
Does the delete feature only apply to out-of-date plugins? How about plugins that are up-to-date but that I no longer want… can those be deleted using Plugin Central?
It fixed the "ignore" problem, all seems to be working fine now. ;)
Thanks
Marco, v1.40 coming up today let me know if that fixes the ignore issue.
Thank you dan. Isn't there a way to let the plugin avoid doing this? Or the server settings force it to behave in this way?
I wish I solve this problem soon.
Hey guys, here is tip, but keep it secret!
Place the latest wordpress zip file URL in the Plugin Central page and click Install!
Example: http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6-beta2.zip
Go to your plugins folder and you should see an unzipped "wordpress" folder there!
Ok move the files in the wordpress folder (DON'T move wp-content folder & wp-config.php file) to your root directory and voila you've upgraded your wordpress files!
Cool huh? ;)
Hi,
The plugin list shows fine on the dashboard. When I click on the "ignore" option, a javascript windows pops-up, I click ok and a text saying "[plugin name] added to ignore list." appears on the dashboard. Still, the plugin doesn't disapear from the list of plugins to update. If I go to the plugin central configuration panel, the "ignore list" is still empty.
Do you have any idea of what can be going on?
Thanks
I'm still unclear: is there a way to use Plugin Central to delete ANY of my existing plugins? If so, how and on which screen?
Thanks for that update Dan. I hope we can produce a working solution within a plugin for this.
I have the same issue but only on a few plugins.. it has to do with file ownership and file permissions and how the plugins were uploaded.
I have the problem because I screwed up my file permissions and ownership a few months ago and have been too lazy to fix it.
Basically when you install a plugin from inside the Wordpress admin (using plugin-central) it will grab the files and install them most likely using the user/group "apache:apache" .
When you log in to your Cpanel or FTP client and upload files they receive a user/group similar to "username:groupname" or "username:apache" etc.. Files that Wordpress adds as apache:apache mean that users on the server must have the same access level/write permission to modify those files otherwise you get a permission denied error.
If you are using shared hosting contact your web host. if you are a dedicated or vps start looking at your ownership and file permission settings.
I dont believe this is related to the plugin itself but how your server is set up.
hope that helps
I tested Plugin Central on several blogs and didn't encounter such a problem. Problem can be server settings regarding external download and unpack of plugins and I hope you and others experiencing these problems can provide more hints about it.
Hello Vladimir,
I am experiencing an issue & am not sure if it has something to do with the settings of the server.
The plugins which I install through Plugin Central can't be deleted or renamed from the Cpanel. I always get a message that I don't have this permission, though I manage other plugins with no restrictions.
Would you please clarify if this is due to the plugin itself?
Thank you.
Update:
Okay, I see where there are 4 options (including "delete") for each plugin that needs updating. But does that mean the delete feature only applies to out-of-date plugins? How about plugins that are up-to-date but that I no longer want… can those be deleted using Plugin Central?
This plugin has been a godsend! (Wait, does that mean Vladimir is god?)
My only issue with the latest version (1.31) is that I cannot figure out how to actually delete plugins. Can someone help?
Thanks!
Well WordPress 2.6 is bringing plugin deletion anyway and the beta is already out. I made it this way so you can delete those annoying plugins that update every day (like mine when I do a lot of changes lol).
Another idea for improvement: delete-choice when choosing "list all plugins" - then I never ever have to use the ftp-app again :)
Dan that was a small warning message that I fixed now. You should not see it again.
cool man thanks again. i hate to have caused work for you :(
The ignore button works but immediately after ignoring the item i see this:
Warning: array_search(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/vhosts/serial-box.net/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/plugin-central/plugin-central.php on line 125
wp-comment-spam-stopper added to ignore list.
it still does ignore the item and when I reload the dashboard the warning goes away so it doesn't look like an issue really.
Thanks for that, try new version 1.31.
awesome thanks for implementing the ignore feature so quickly!
I updated the plugin from my dashboard which appeared successful but I have one plugin on there still showing as needing an update that I want to ignore but directly above that listed plugin is this error:
Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/serial-box.net/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/plugin-central/plugin-central.php on line 22
the option to ignore does not show up beside it.
any help would be appreciated
Your wish just came true in the newest version 1.30 available for download now. Also the ignore updates functionality is implemented now.
It works only for those plugins in need of update for now (so you have download, update, ignore or delete as options)
The possibility to delete plugins that aren't in use.
thanks Vladimir.. good to know.. i';ll be watching out for it on my dashboard :)
Yep I'd like to see that option as well unfortunately it is not as easy to code as you would need an additional managing interface.. But will be implemented in the future for sure.
One of the coolest plugins Ive ever seen. Wordpress always lacked this feature that I liked so much in Joomla.
I was hoping there was a way you could incorporate a list of plugins to ignore. there are a couple that i dont like to update using hte automatic method and I dont want those showing on my dashboad.
thanks
Hi,
Love the Plugin Central plugin. Just wanted to mention that after going through the automatic update process it states the plugin was reactivated. It lies :). I have to go to the plugin page and reactivate the plugin that has been updated. It does not matter which plugin is updated, it happens with all of them. WP is up-to-date. 2.5 Just wanted to let you know. It is a minor bug. Oh yea, I am running the current update of Plugin Central.
Don't know if this is from your plugin or something native to wp, but any plugin I try to update results in a page asking me for ftp options for downloading the all-in-one-adsense-and-ypn plugin (and failing to update it, no matter what options i give).
Thus, I would like to propose a sort of "cancel" operation...
Best regards,
Sune Mølgaard
Is there a way to update "many" plugins at a time? I have close to 50 blogs, and when I update the plugins from the Dashboard, it lists (something like 10) plugins at a time, and once I click on "Update Plugins", it updates some, then I get another list of many plugins to update.
Plugin central works on WP 2.5 and later, I haven't checked latest MU yet. If you are getting that message then it probably means you miss the plugin update functionality.
I got this message on dashboard:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_update_plugins()
I am using WP MU last version, no WPAU installed/used.
Hey I just tried to update my plugins but I got the error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function ppl_plugin_basename()
whats going on here??
@Neil Forker
I try your advice to deactivate WAU with no avail.
Here's the message when I try to update Akismet plugin:
Should I CHMOD a directory? Which one? I try to CHMOD Akismet plugin directory to 777 and still fail.
I event try to CHMOD WAU plugin directory and fail also.
Anybody can help me?
I am also getting the "Filesystem error FTP hostname is required" error.
thanks.
Turn off WPAU and it will work.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() (previously declared in /home/public_html/xxx/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/lib/pclzip.lib.php:5421) in /home/public_html/xxx/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 5489
when i want to install a new plugin with plugin central i receive this error what shuold i 2 do?
Installed your plugin this morning -it's awesome!-
Should make an option to unistall them too~ would be the definitive plugin.
Works awesome on WP 2.6 bleeding as well.
Keep up the good work.
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Maybe you could internationalize your plugins so people could make translations. It’s not nice to see text on the dashboard that cannot be translated without tempering with your code.
Hello,
I installed plugin and tried it but I get the following error message:
Unpack failed : Could not create directory
I gave full permission by chmod to the plugin directory and still the same thing. Can't figure it out. Can anyone help.
Thanks.
If you have this plugin and the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin activated at the same time, you may get an error when trying to install a new plugin using Plugin Central. The fix is to deactivate Wordpress Automatic Upgrade when not in need of an upgrade to your Wordpress install.
checking out the plugin now - immediate reaction/question is could you move the interface to the plugin page in the admin section? Would seem to make more sense than adding a new sub-tab to the dashboard - not very intuitive
Same error as jez:
Found rb-internal-links 0.21!
Filesystem error FTP hostname is required
Thanks Kym for the plug.
You are for making such a great WordPress resource over there!
Hello! Just wanted you to know that you were mentioned this week on WordCast episode 9 :) http://www.wordcastonline.com/2008/04/22/wordcast-9-kym-flies-solo/
I found something funny - you cannot auto-update the plugin itself (at least it did not work for me). after I tried it completely disappeared. I had to re-download it manually. however, I love this plugin!
Will this work on the updated (currently beta but working) wordpress-mu for installing and updating plugins? we really need a plugin manager for MU.
Wow, this sounds great. Was looking for something like this. I already use your Test Theme plugin and that's a great plugin. Thanks for developing such great plugins and also for sharing them with us. Much appreciated.
moserw
http://www.nela.in
David: Thanks for the props. Can you suggest css chnages for Fluency admin that will work for both the default theme and that one?
jez: Your issue is known and currently the plugin will work on hosts that will allow you http permissions. I am working on a ftp solution similar to wordpress (enter ftp details..) so please be patient !
I get:
Filesystem error FTP hostname is required
when trying to install from an url.
the upgrade function however works like a charm!
(supplied ftp stuff there and worked out of the box).
Thanks, this is the plugin I've bee missing, but not quite sure what I wanted to look like until I saw it in action. I have 37 plugins on my primary blog and some mixture of those and others on several others across work and friends/family, so being able to manage and install/test easily is a huge, huge timesaver! Even over jumping in with SSH and doing a wget/unzip, which is pretty fast.
I would like to see an additiona panel under the Plugins area to keep all the Plugin-related stuff together, rather than under Dashboard. Howver, I like the main panel added to the Dashboard!
I am using the Fluency Admin plugin (admin theme) and although the style of the Dashboard insert could use a bit of tweaking, it seems to work fine (and the full sub-panel area works fine).
Yep, those two functionalities are on my to-do list
Vladimir,
Thanks. I withdraw my comment. I selected a few semi-random plugins from the WP Plugins page (chCounter Widget, LeagueManager, Theme Tester) and was able to load and activate them using Plug-In Central with no trouble.
Can I suggest adding Deactivate and Delete Plugin functions? That way I don't have to go to my FTP client if a plugin doesn't work as expected.
thanks again for your hard work!
Steve
Steve you are a true skeptic which can be also seen from the name of your site "Careful Thought". Which is cool ;)
So the advantages of this plugin to WP 2.5 are:
And some other cool things like multiple plugin installation etc..
I hope I’ll finally say goodbye to my ftp client.
What am I missing? This plugin provides nothing beyond the basic WP 2.5 plug-in capability. Where's the ftp capability? Why do I need to go to the Dashboard to handle plug-ins? Why not from the PlugIns page?
PlugInstaller provides a little better capability, though it's far from perfect.
lbitv, I bet your going to have to do that the old fashion way, the other way I can think of take far too much effort.
Guys thanks for all the feedback and support.
This plugin is still in beta and not all functionalities might be working. But I wanted to release it as soon as possible to public for testing.
The main reason some plugin installs would not work are filesystem permissions. I used 100% wordpress filesystem routines to remain compatible and safe and on some hosts you will not have permissions to write to certain directories. In the future versions I will write an independent ftp method that will work on all systems.
If you have problems with unpacking it is usually due to WP Automatic Upgrade plugin. It's author and I are working on a workaround solution.
Waow about time someone did this! Will definitely feature this on a future edition of WordCast @ http://www.wordcastonline.com/
Having a little trouble with this though: When I try to update, I get:
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Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/all-in-one-seo-pack.zip
Unpacking the update
Could not create directory
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Also when I try to install, I get this:
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Found all-in-one-seo-pack 1.4.6.7!
Filesystem error FTP hostname is required
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Little help?
Nevermind about my previous "not working" comment. I have deactivated my Automatic WP Update plugin and the Plugin Central works like a charm (tested it again with TinyMCE Advanced).
Thanks a lot!
Another question, where down the plugin install files for the new plugins it downloads & installs?
I want to use the image rotator tool with the NextGen Gallery. Plugin Central installed NextGen, but I cannot find the plugin folder anywhere on my server. I need to upload the image rotator swf file to the"nggallery" folder that should have been created under a traditional ftp upload & install.
Please advise, & thank u in advance
Thanks William, I hade the WP Automatic Upgrade plugin active ( a great way to upgrade btw). Once I deactivated it, Plugin central worked perfectly!
I'll just activate the upgrade when new versions of WP are anounced.
Thanks again
Tried it with TinyMCE advanced. It stuck on "unpacking" :S
It seems to work with plugin updates though.
I hope I'll finaly say goodbye to my ftp client. Thanks.
I tend to see that error when I there is more then one update type plugin installed, be it for plugins or themes. Try disabling them all and just try one.
I've tried your plugin, which is a great idea by the way, & I get the following error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip in /home/lbitvcom/public_html/retv/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 162
I've tried 8 different plugins & they all give the same error.
Any clues?
You may want to add that this conflicts with your Plugin Update Plus plugin. Or at least it did for me.
This plugin is going to be downloaded and translated :)
I love this idea!