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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149 Comments
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.