Plugin Central is a WordPress plugin management add-on to automatically install and update WordPress plugins. It works with WordPress 2.5+ only.
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
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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July 15th, 2008 at 23:42
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?
July 14th, 2008 at 9:09
Drew: My plugin Theme Test Drive does just that among other things
July 14th, 2008 at 0:17
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.
July 8th, 2008 at 20:11
Thanks for such a wonderful plugin. Saves a lot of time when setting up new installations of WordPress for clients and friends.
July 3rd, 2008 at 21:25
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.
July 3rd, 2008 at 20:20
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?
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:17
It fixed the “ignore” problem, all seems to be working fine now.
Thanks
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:45
Marco, v1.40 coming up today let me know if that fixes the ignore issue.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:26
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.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:22
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?
July 2nd, 2008 at 21:48
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