Single Click Plugin Updater WordPress Plugin
This plugin extends the plugin update notification feature introduced in WordPress 2.3 by adding an “update automatically” link to update notifications. When you click the link, the new version of the corresponding plugin is downloaded and installed automatically. It also lets you know which plugins have update notifications enabled.
Update 06.04.2008 : Version 2.0.1 with much more features is out. More info here.
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How It Works (In Detail)
To be able to display the new link this plugin will hide the original update notification and display a slightly modified one. Here’s what happens when you click the “update automatically” link :
- If the plugin that needs to be updated is active, it is deactivated.
- The Plugin Updater retrieves the plugin’s page from Wordpress.org and finds the download link.
- The new version is downloaded and extracted to the wp-content/plugins directory (this directory must be writable by the Updater plugin).
- If necessary, the updated plugin is re-activated.
All this happens in the background, so if everything works OK you’ll end up back at the “Plugins” tab. If there are any errors the plugin will display an error message and abort the upgrade.
Requirements
- WordPress 2.3 or newer.
- CURL library installed or allow_url_fopen enabled in php.ini. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry – at least one of these is available on most webservers by default.
- The /plugins directory must be writable by WordPress. The exact file permissions depend on the server configuration. Read more about file permissions. 666 or 755 may be sufficient, and 777 will always work, though this is not recommended due to security risks.
The plugin has been tested and works under Firefox 2.x, Opera 9.x and, as of version 1.0.5, Internet Explorer.
Installation
To install the plugin, please follow these steps:
- Download the one-click-plugin-updater.zip file (below) to your computer.
- Unzip the file.
- Upload “one-click-plugin-updater” folder to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
That’s it.
Download
one-click-plugin-updater.zip (40 Kb)
I’ve been using this plugins for quite some time now, however yesterday I upgraded my WP install to v.2.7 and this plugin failed to work, I cannot upgrade my plugins using “entering URL” feature, only from file which mean I need to download the plugin first then re-upload using Single Click Plugin Updater.
@Budhi : Could you please be a bit more specific – what error message do you get, etc?
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BUG – Install A Plug Skipped Some Files
i used wp 2.7 built-in ‘install a plug-in’ page to install wp-dtree plugin.
it did not upload plus.gif into /plugins/wp-dtree-30/dtree-img/
it also did not upload all gifs after plus.gif.
i would assume other files may have been skipped as well.
this problem occurred with ‘install from url’ and ‘install from a file’ when i manually uploaded the plugin, no files were missed.
therefor, WP’s ‘install a plugin page’ is DEFECTIVE.
unless i’m mistaken.
What errors does the installation log show, if any? I just installed WP-dTree on my testsite with no problems.
how can i view the installation log?
i did not receive any error messages when i did the install. i only noticed the plugin was missing some gif’s during normal usage. i checked the plugin image folder, and indeed the gifs were missing.
i tried 2 or 3 times to install it using your plugin– missing those files each time.
this may be a problem with my theme. how could a theme disrupt this plugin?
wp 2.7 built-in “add new” page remote-installer works fine with my theme
You can view the installation log by clicking on “View installation log” after the installation has finished.
It’s very unusual that some files are installed and some aren’t, I can’t imagine why that would happen. Also, I don’t think a theme could interfere with this plugin.
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I may have some server/permissions issue, but everything *seems* okay. My plugins folder is set at 755, so I’m not sure if there is anything else conflicting or preventing the plugin from working. When I try to install a plugin by uploading a zip or entering in a URL (or even using the firefox extension), I get this error:
About to extract ‘/***/***/***/phptmp/php5JFMOz’.
Extracting files from /***/***/***/phptmp/php5JFMOz…
So far, the type is set to ‘plugin’.
Need to load PclZip.
gzopen() found, will use PclZip.
Starting extraction to folder ‘/***/***/***/web/wp-content/plugins/’.
Extracting cforms/____HISTORY.txt
Can’t create file cforms/____HISTORY.txt in /***/***/***/web/wp-content/plugins/!
Any ideas?
Hi,
I have a problem/question:
I installed this plugin, because wp itself never sees an update of any plugin.
After installing this one, there are still no messages that one or more plugings need updating. But, i know for sure that at least 1 plugin can be updated (checked it manually). Does anybody have any ideas why I am not getting update notifications?
Regards, Snarf
Hmm, maybe it’s the filename – i.e. the multiple underscores might be somehow be problematic on your server? Then again, other plugins would install okay if this was the case.
Maybe the server is running out of space? Or maybe there’s some security module/script/whatever that’s blocking certaing files?
@ Snarf : A few possibilities come to mind –
* Go to “Plugins -> Upgrade Settings” and make sure “Enable plugin update checks” is ticked and the “Check interval” field is set to a reasonable value.
* Check that your server configuration allows outgoing connections from PHP scripts. For example, if you can successfully install plugins via “Plugins -> Add New” or “Plugins -> Install a Plugin” then it’s probably working.
* (You probably know this one already) Update notifications only work for plugins hosted on wordpress.org.
I restored a backup of my website to my local (on my laptop, running USBWebserver) environment, so i have an identical situation) And there it works like i expect (updates are notified and all). So underscores are ruled out (there are none btw) and there is space enough (approx 170Mb).
Security script… I really don’t know…
The “Enable plugin update checks” is ticked and set the interval to 300 secs (5 mins), for testing purposes.
I am able to successfully install plugins via “Plugins -> Add New” or “Plugins -> Install a Plugin” (downloaded a random plugin and installed it succesfull).
Yes, I know that update notifications only work for plugins hosted on wordpress.org (otherwise it would not show updates on the localhost of my laptop
Well, I haven’t got any more ideas at the moment. Try the WordPress support forum, somebody might be able to help.
Well, looked at everything and finally I found the problem.
I had a post where the character Ă© was in the header and in the post itself. After i removed it and made it just e, all works fine.
Don’t ask me how or where it went wrong, but this is the fix for me
Thanks all for your help and suggestions
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hmmm, your plugin doesnt seem to like it when wordpress is using ssl when accessing the admin area, ie has
define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);
defined in wp-config.php.
Just thought id mention for future bug fixes
Hello, I’m using this fantastic plugin on my wordpress 2.7 installation. But I found some differences from what I have on my test pc and the online website which is the “production” machine.
In my pc I can to “Plugins->Add new” search for a plugin and install it.
If I do the same thing on my online installation it goes to the default wordpress page where it asks for ftp/ftps to upload files.
Am I missing some part of the configuration? Is some properties of php not enabled?
Thanks for your great work regarding this plugin, I am sure this is just some ignorance from my side, but I really tried searching online and didn’t found this problem.
Regards,
Andrea (sdl)
Just to clarify, the “Add New” page is part of the WP core, not this plugin.
WordPress asks for your FTP credentials because it can’t directly create files in the ‘plugins’ directory (or at least it thinks so). You need to set the file permissions to allow PHP write access to that directory. Depending on your configuration, this might be 755 or 777.
If you can install plugins via the page created by this plugin (“Plugins -> Install a Plugin”) but the “Add New” page still asks you for your FTP info, it’s probably a bug in WordPress.
I have found an interesting discussion on
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/223144
regarding the checks made by wordpress.
I finally found what was the problem. WP is searching for the owner of the file, and I’m using it on a multiuser environment, so that’s why it wasn’t working.
Thank you! Without your help I wouldn’t have fixed it!
Regards
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This will make life a whole lot easier Janice…many thanks because I need to install about 100 blogs
I’m gonna refer to you from now on as Janice “makes life easy” Elts. Seriously,thanks for a very useful plugin
Thanks, though it really is “Janis” (a Latvian name)
I can’t update Contact Form 7. Other plug-ins seem to update easily. This one won’t. I get this:
Can’t create file ‘contact-form-7/README.txt’ in ‘/home/hintysen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/’
The full installation log is below :
Plugin directory is ‘/home/hintysen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/’
Checking to see if /home/hintysen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/ is writable.
Okay.
Nonce verification passed.
About to upgrade 1 plugins.
Upgrading ‘contact-form-7/wp-contact-form-7.php’, download URL is ‘http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/contact-form-7.1.9.3.zip’.
The plugin that needs to be upgraded is active. Deactivating.
Downloading ‘http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/contact-form-7.1.9.3.zip’…
Downloaded 1242613 bytes.
Will save the new version archive (zip) to a temporary file ‘/home/hintysen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/plg4c8030b73a4924b65347ec144cbce2e8.zip’.
About to extract ‘/home/hintysen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/plg4c8030b73a4924b65347ec144cbce2e8.zip’.
Extracting files from /home/hintysen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/plg4c8030b73a4924b65347ec144cbce2e8.zip…
So far, the type is set to ‘plugin’.
Need to load PclZip.
gzopen() found, will use PclZip.
Starting extraction to folder ‘/home/hintysen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/’.
Extracting contact-form-7/README.txt
Can’t create file contact-form-7/README.txt in /home/hintysen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/!
Main loop finished.