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Plugin Review: Improved Plugin Installation

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  1. hyrxx (1 comments.) says:

    plugin central has the ability to mass upgrade all plugins, but as a plugin itself it is a bit clunky and it adds the names of all the plugins you have installed into the main dashboard widget…

  2. Hilmy (1 comments.) says:

    Exactly! That is on my wishlist too.
    Everytime I log in to the admin dashboard, I see a couple of plugins that need updating and I have to go through one by one to do that.
    Yeah, this was already much easier than having to download and upload plugins as in the past but getting things much easier is a good thing too.
    Also, theme updating is still way way behind. Perhaps it’s not that important since theme may not get updated or upgraded as frequently as plugins do.

  3. Raju (2 comments.) says:

    Even after moving to 2.7.1 I have been using “one click plugin installer” WordPress plugin. But with this plugin I have ownership issues at the backend. It installs under “nobody” user on my VPS root which creates a problem when updating/deleting. I hope the same issue is not present with this plugin atleast

  4. jaggerkieth (1 comments.) says:

    I’m using this plugin on my sitewww.urfresh.info! This one is a very useful plugin!

    You should give it a try!

    Cheers!

  5. Wesley (13 comments.) says:

    Thanks for featuring the plugin, I’ll see what can be done for mass updating plugins.

    As for themes, I believe 2.8 will bring the functionality.

  6. bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

    Well, I wouldn’t be too keen on upgrading a theme like that anyway, because even pre-built themes generally need modifications before their ready to be posted on the blog. I mean honestly, who would want to visit a blog that looked identical to several other blogs? I certainly wouldn’t. Every blog u visit has to have some sort of unique design, otherwise its boring and it don’t get any visitors, even if its a celebrity blog.

    As for a better plugin updater, this does sound neat. but I worry about too many plugins slowing down the execution time of the blog, for I still want to attempt to keep a blog fast enough that a 56k user can still view it without taking an hour to download, otherwise it aint worth it. hehe.

    but I know my design needs fixed up “big time” :( I just can’t afford to pay someone to help me with it right now. :( The actual design itself I’m happy with, but I wanted help fixing some of the problems with it, like the sidebar problems and fixing the code so its xhtml 1.0 transitional compliant. I’m having trouble with that at the moment. I think the biggest culprit is my plugins, but I need help with it.

    • Carson (46 comments.) says:

      I, and probably most other people, visit blogs for the content, not the theme. As long as a blog is readable and navigable I don’t care how it is formatted or styled. Do you visit friends to admire their home or to enjoy their company?

  7. Ovidiu (6 comments.) says:

    isn’t this exactly what this plugin does already? http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....n-central/

  8. robbie (1 comments.) says:

    i said that already in the first comment

  9. Tammy (1 comments.) says:

    So I’m new at all this wordpress and plugins stuff, but I thought I had just found the holy grail of plugins (for me, for now anyway) when I found this post. But then I noticed the date…. then I checked the version of wordpress that I’m using… 3.2.1 Is this still a viable plugin to use? Or should I jst get more familiar with the way things are “supposed to work” before relying on a plugin like this?

    • James Huff (184 comments.) says:

      It will probably still work, but I don’t think it’s too viable anymore. It’s pretty easy to install plugins that are in the official directory (as most are) from your Dashboard, and you can also upload plugins that aren’t in the directory from the Dashboard too.


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