{"id":111,"date":"2007-07-23T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T17:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/wordpress-plugin-installer\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:09:21","slug":"wordpress-plugin-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/wordpress-plugin-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugin Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"PlugInstaller at WordPress.org\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/pluginstaller\/\">WordPress plugin<\/a> called &#8220;<a title=\"PlugInstaller Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/henning.imaginemore.de\/pluginstaller\/\">PlugInstaller<\/a>&#8221; by <a title=\"PlugInstaller Author's Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/henning.imaginemore.de\/\">H.R. Schaefer<\/a> is an excellent concept come to fruition.  PlugInstaller makes installing a plugin as easy as pointing to a web address (or a file on your hard drive) and pressing the &#8220;install&#8221; button.  You no longer need to download, decompress, upload and activate your plugins.  It turns a 4-step multi-application process into a one-click-command issued from the WordPress user interface.  Pretty nice.  But wait there&#8217;s more! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>PlugInstaller also checks the WordPress.org database for newer versions of your plugins and provides an option for one-click updating.  Brilliant!  And if that wasn&#8217;t enough, PlugInstaller revamps the plugins management page to display all plugins in a space-saving expandable list which incorporates a link to uninstall (delete) inactive plugins as well as a link to every plugin&#8217;s &#8220;ReadMe&#8221; file.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a title=\"Recommend WordPress Plugin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/wordpress-plugin-recommendation-june\/\">installed quite a few plugins<\/a> and now that I&#8217;ve added PlugInstaller, managing them all is a cinch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reasons to install PlugInstaller<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greatly simplifies the plugin installation process.<\/li>\n<li>Sleek new Plugins Management page.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to uninstall\/delete inactive plugins.<\/li>\n<li>New &#8220;Deactivate All&#8221; plugins feature.<\/li>\n<li>Quickly access each plugin&#8217;s ReadMe file.<\/li>\n<li>Lists and manages broken or incompatible plugins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Things to watch out for<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The installation requires &#8216;tar&#8217;, &#8216;gzip&#8217; and &#8216;unzip&#8217; to be installed and readily available from the search path<\/em>, which seems a bit &#8220;technical&#8221; for a plugin mostly geared to helping non-technical people.<\/li>\n<li>Pluginstaller didn&#8217;t like managing plugins which were &#8220;unnecessarily&#8221; nested within a subfolder of the &#8220;plugins&#8221; directory.  I had to deactivate them and FTP them to the root of the plugins folder before PlugInstaller could handle the update process.<\/li>\n<li>Not all plugins are standardized and therefore may not support all PlugInstaller features.<\/li>\n<li>Though it detects plugins which need updating, pressing the &#8220;Check for Updates&#8221; button causes an error for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, a great plugin to install and update plugins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WordPress plugin \u201cPlugInstaller\u201d makes installing a plugin as easy as pointing to a web address (or a file on your hard drive) and pressing the \u201cinstall\u201d button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44,20],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-development","tag-plugin","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}