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
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.