Comments on: Feature suggestion for PlugInstaller 0.2.x

By: jimisaacs

jimisaacs — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:21:14 +0000

This plugin is one of my favorites, but unfortunately it is not styled well to be compatible with many of my favorite theme plugins like “Leopard Admin” being one of them.

I understand what you were trying to do with the interface. But is there anyway to make this more compatible with other admin themes?

Regardless of this little finicky thing, good job on a great plugin!!

thanks,
jimisaacs

By: bbbco

bbbco — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:19:53 +0000

Same request from above post. My wordpress is installed in a separate folder, and when I uninstall, I have to add that manually in the address bar.

Also, I am frustrated with the permissions lock that seems to have shut down chmod access to certain files. Please revise and allow manual chmoding within the plugins directory!

bbbco

By: Georgi Hristozov

Georgi Hristozov — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:46:30 +0000

Great plugin, congrats! But I think there is a bug. On line 284 in plugins.php, you send the user (with JS) to “/wp-admin/plugins.php”, when he tries to uninstall a plugin. This will simply lead to 404 if the blog is not installed in the root directory. Your code should obey the WP configuration.

By: Troshichev

Troshichev — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:08:59 +0000

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By: Edwin Bush

Edwin Bush — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:22:37 +0000

Work with installations in subdirectories.
Work with the built in version checker.
not have to refresh plugin list for it to recognize just installed plugins.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:37:44 +0000

Great plugin… my suggestions:

1. Allow us to install themes as well.
2. On WP2.3.1 there seems to be a new bug introduced where you install a plugin and it shows in the broken plugin area until you refresh the page and then it seems to be fine.
3. Figure out a solution to the permissions problem. I realize that the plugin (webserver) owns the directories and files but the reality of managing my blog is that I upload some things by hand, delete plugins by hand, etc… and with this permissions problem this becomes very problematic.
4. Include the version numbers in your table.

By: Craiger

Craiger — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:59:11 +0000

I love this plugin!

Here are a few suggestions.

1. When URL Install process, plugin should refresh the page so that the newly installed plugin shows up in the Inactive Plugins list.

2. Fix the Uninstall Bug –> Whenever a Plugin Author does not use a plugin subdirectory (wp-content/plugins/{plugin subdir}) and you use the uninstall process you get the following error:

“A problem has occured
PlugInstaller cannot uninstall this plugin, as it has not been installed into a subdirectory!”

Pluginstaller should be able to find the plugin & remove it whether it is in a subdirectory or just in the plugins folder.

By: Craig Nicholson

Craig Nicholson — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:46:49 +0000

The default plugin page lists the version number of each plugin. Activating Plugin Installer hides this information. It would be nice if the version information was displayed when Plugin Installer is activated.

By: Henning

Henning — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:26:09 +0000

It seems like there was no valid plugin file detected or included in the package you installed. So PlugInstaller tried to move the root directory (by copying all files to the plugins directory and then attempting to delete the original path, which of course failed).

This issue will be fixed in the next release which is due around 20th of August.

By: bazil

bazil — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:57:36 +0000

also, in my plugins directory were created some root directories:

pepelac plugins # pepelac plugins # ls -al
total 98
drwxr-xr-x 16 apache apache 656 Aug 10 13:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 176 May 30 18:07 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 apache apache 96 Oct 5 2006 __MACOSX
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 112 May 16 11:46 akismet
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 3648 Aug 10 13:20 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 152 Aug 10 13:05 category-admin
-rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 3317 Oct 5 2006 collapsing_category_menu.php
drwxr-xr-x 14 apache apache 336 Aug 10 13:20 dev
-rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 555 Jun 12 14:53 download.php?FILE=LangSwitch.zip
drwxr-xr-x 69 apache apache 4200 Aug 10 13:20 etc
-rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 2025 May 14 00:07 hello.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 152 Aug 10 13:03 hierarchical-categories
drwxr-xr-x 9 apache apache 4008 Aug 10 13:21 lib
drwxr-xr-x 5 apache apache 144 Aug 10 13:21 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 9 apache apache 704 May 30 13:51 nextgen-gallery
drwxr-xr-x 6 apache apache 176 Aug 10 13:21 opt
-rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 1819 Aug 10 13:20 plugin.zip
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 328 Aug 10 14:04 pluginstaller
drwxr-xr-x 6 apache apache 1800 Jul 12 15:12 podpress
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 152 Aug 10 12:56 top-level-cats
-rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 461 Jun 12 14:53 wget-log
-rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 65280 May 31 15:47 wordpress-mobile.php
pepelac plugins #

pepelac plugins # cd bin
pepelac bin # ls
Mail bzip2recover dir grep login nisdomainname run-parts tee zcmp
arch bzless dircolors groups logname nohup sed tempfile zdiff
awk bzmore dirname gunzip ls oldfuser seq touch zegrep
base64 cat dmesg gzcat lsattr pgawk setfont tr zfgrep
basename chattr dnsdomainname gzexe lsmod pidof sh true zforce
bash chgrp domainname gzip lsmod.old printenv sha224sum tty zgrep
bb chmod du head mail ps sha256sum uname zless
bunzip2 chown echo hostid mailx pstree sha384sum uniq zmore
busybox chroot ed hostname mkdir ptx sha512sum unlink znew
busybox.static cksum egrep id mkfifo pwd shuf uuidgen
bzcat comm env igawk mknod rbash sleep vdir
bzcmp cp expr install mktemp rc-status sort wc
bzdiff cpio false kill more readlink split who
bzegrep cut fgrep killall mv red stat whoami
bzfgrep date fuser link nano rm stty yes
bzgrep dd gawk ln netstat rmdir sync ypdomainname
bzip2 df gawk-3.1.5 loadkeys nice rnano tar zcat
pepelac bin #

and so on. Please, make a patch.