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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170 Comments
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