Tyson recently informed me about a problem that can arise if you uninstall PlugInstaller. You might get stuck with seemingly “locked” plugin directories that make it impossible to manually delete any plugins that have been installed by PlugInstaller.
I have provided instructions on how to overcome this issue for all those of you who don’t like PlugInstaller any more.
Thanks to ovizii, a major and very severe bug has been discovered in version 0.2.0 of PlugInstaller. The bug could lead to complete unusability of your wordpress installation, if the wrong plugin packages were installed. Only users of version 0.2.0 are affected by this issue.
Please, update your installation of PlugInstaller IMMEDIATELY to prevent damage to your wordpress installation!
As PlugInstaller 0.2 seems to be in a quite stable state, I am looking for suggestions on how to improve PlugInstaller further. As a feature list, I have collected the following items:
If you can think of additional features that should be included in future releases, feel free to write comments on this post.
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!
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:
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.
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!