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!
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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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I have a question on plugin central
When Im on my dashboard and scroll down to update all plugins from plugin central it asks me for:
Connection Information
To perform the requested action, connection information is required.
Hostname
Username
Password
Connection Type Connection Type FTP FTPS (SSL)
WHY??
I had never had it ask me for this before until today.....
Thank you, Vladimir! It works like a charm!
Thanks for the update! Great work, as usual!
One typo in the Change log for 2.4: Activatation > Activation
Updated to version 2.4 with full WP3.0 compatibility
No longer seems to work with version 3.0 of WordPress. No errors are displayed but updates are not detected, even though WordPress itself does detect them.
I hope this is not happening to me only and that you can find a fix.
Thanks anyway for this great plugin!
Thanks you sir for another good thing.
Scenario: I have 3 plugins listed in my dashboard as being in need of an update. The strange thing is though that all of them are already the latest version. So when I try to update either a single plugin or all 3 I'm told that "The plugin is at the latest version.".
My plugin Central is version 2.3 and I've recently upgraded to WP3.0. the 3 plugins where marked as ready for update before the WP3.0 upgrade.
Any thoughts on this? Where does Plugin Central store it's information about which plugins needs updating?
Thanks in advance
CJ
this is a pretty awesome plugin! i tested it on my confixx based server and it just works fine.
could you implement a feature to "autoupdate" outdated plugins?
This plugin is huge timesaver. Thanks so much for creating it.
Just wondering if you were planning on updating it for WordPress 3.0 which I understand has an inbuilt plug in updater but doesnt to my knowledge have the ability that yours does to automatically install a list of plugins?
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.