This page describes my efforts to create a Wordpress plugin that replaces the TinyMCE rich text editor (RTE) shipped along with wordpress by FCKeditor, a very powerful and easy to use RTE that is commonly used with many projects all around the web.

As a visitor of this blog told me that there already is such a plugin, I am no longer continuing the development of this plugin, but I will try to incorporate some of my features into Dean’s FCKeditor for Wordpress plugin, which I highly recommend.

Featuring an enhanced automatic update checking and installation mechanism that keeps your wordpress plugins up to date, a mechanism to install problematic non-standard plugin packages and to find and remove broken plugin installations.

Download the plugin here or support the development by donating!

I am now accepting donations via PayPal for the development of PlugInstaller. If you are successfully using PlugInstaller, are satisfied with it and want to actively support its development, you might consider to donate an amount of your choice.

If you don’t want to spend money on free software, you might be willing to spend some of your free time to help in testing new PlugInstaller builds. Feel free to contact me, I will send you the latest testing code for you to examinate.

Take a look at this page to get more information on donating!

If you want to support my work on PlugInstaller and other plugins that will be available soon, I would really appreciate your donation. As with most free software, the choice over the amount you are willing to donate is completely up to you. You may donate as little as 0,10 €, but you may also donate your entire fortune (you should think twice before doing that).

After you click on the “PayPal Spenden” (which means “Donate via PayPal” in german) button below, you will be asked how much money you want to donate.

Thank you very much for your support!

Usually, we say “there is good news and there is bad news. Which one would you like to hear first?”. As most people generally want to hear the bad news first, let’s start with that:

The development of automatic plugin checking for PlugInstaller 0.2 has proven to be more complex that I first thought, so I have not been able to implement the full functionality yet.

And now the good news:

As version 0.2 incorporates some important fixes for people with non-standard-directory installations of WordPress, I have decided to release the current version anyway. I have called this version 0.1.9 with 0.2 to follow within the next few days. And the best is: Update checking (and, of course, automatic update installation) already works for some of the plugins, so be sure to hit the “check for updated plugins” button as soon as you have installed 0.1.9.

Download from here!

Many people have asked to be able to replace the TinyMCE rich text editor (RTE) shipped along with WordPress by their favorite RTE. As my favorite RTE is FCKeditor (which I have successfully used in many projects), I have started to develop a plugin that is able to replace TinyMCE by FCKeditor. This greatly enhances the possibilities when writing articles in WordPress, like comfortably embedding flash, tables, and smileys , as well as text formatting.

There is still a lot to do (like connecting the image browser), but this article has actually been written with FCKeditor. Stay tuned for the first beta release!

The next steps towards PlugInstaller 0.2 are taken! As 0.2 will be a major release, several new features will be included, for example:

• Complete integration of install/uninstall functions into a redesigned plugin management page
• Automatic updating of plugins (at least for wordpress.org hosted plugins)
• As well as some minor changes that will eliminate possible problems on non-standard WP installations.

There are still some things to do and it will take some more days to complete the release, but for those of you who already want to try the new version, I have provided a preview version for download: PlugInstaller 0.2 preview version (be sure to upgrade to the final version if it becomes available!)

Due to a mistake during development, version 0.1.6 of PlugInstaller did not solve all the problems for people who are unable to download file using fopen_wrappers. Thanks to a contribution by angrycamel, this problem is solved in version 0.1.7.

More information and download

You are currently using PlugInstaller and would like to contribute to it’s development and to the way it is going in the future? Be sure to take this survey!

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Finally, PlugInstaller does also feature plugin downloads with cURL on servers that have fopen_wrappers disabled. You don’t need to configure anything, the plugin will automatically determine if fopen can open URLs and fall back to cURL support if fopen fails.

This is just a minor upgrade which does only add cURL support. More features will be introduced in the 0.2 version.

If you get the fopen(): url file-access is disabled in the server configuration error on using PlugInstaller, you should upgrade to this version.

More information and download