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.

Download it now! (37 Kb)

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 :

  1. If the plugin that needs to be updated is active, it is deactivated.
  2. The Plugin Updater retrieves the plugin’s page from WordPress.org and finds the download link.
  3. The new version is downloaded and extracted to the wp-content/plugins directory (this directory must be writable by the Updater plugin).
  4. 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)
CC-GNU GPL

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  1. ovidiu says:
    June 15, 2009 at 10:48

    had some problems with the latest version on 2.8 when mass updating, several plugins didn’t get reactivated, possibly all, didn’t pay that much attention.

    is it jsut me or has anyone else seen the same problem?

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    June 15, 2009 at 12:40

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  3. Kaingo says:
    June 15, 2009 at 17:16

    Good job with this plugin, easy to use, works great, thanks

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  5. MossackAnme™ says:
    June 25, 2009 at 11:08

    Why the OneClick Plugin Updater 2.4.9 doesn’t works well on my personal site once I upgraded to WordPress 2.8…??

    It can updates the plugin(s) but cannot remove the “There is a new version of [pluginname] available” statement…

    Why should I do?

  6. White Shadow says:
    June 25, 2009 at 13:14

    For one, you shouldn’t leave identical comments on four other posts. I get the comment notification either way.

    I don’t know exactly why that would happen, but I’ve uploaded a minor uptade that might fix the problem. Now the message(s) should go away once you update a plugin.

  7. MossackAnme™ says:
    June 25, 2009 at 13:48

    Sorry for your inconvenience… /(-.-)\
    I’m too panic about that..that problem came on my busiest time..
    Sorry..

    Waiting for your help…and I’ll report it to you ASAP…Thanks…

  8. MossackAnme™ says:
    June 26, 2009 at 01:58

    Hmm..not yet resolved..

    The updates announcement still showed up below the plugin line…

    But, the statement go away if I try to deactivated and activated OneClickPluginUpdater after I updates another plugins..
    It can resolve the problem but wasting the time if another plugins updates are coming everyday…

    So?

  9. MossackAnme™ says:
    June 27, 2009 at 10:14

    Not yet resolved with your 2.4.11 version…
    The update statement(s) still showed up after a plugin(s) has(have) been updated…

    Open in new tab to view the screenshots of the problem…
    Don’t forget to tell me if you has finished the screenshot download so I can delete that screenshots…thx…
    Screenshot 1
    Screenshot 1

    What can I help?

  10. White Shadow says:
    June 27, 2009 at 14:38

    I’ve got the screenshots. However, I’m unable to reproduce the problem (and thus I can’t fix the bug either). The update notification always goes away when I successfully upgrade a plugin.

  11. MossackAnme™ says:
    June 27, 2009 at 22:37

    Hmm…so, what can I do? (-?-)

    The problem come to me on every WordPress installation on my mossackanme.web.id server, too…not only on my OpinionBlog…

    Are debug mode can help us?

  12. White Shadow says:
    June 28, 2009 at 16:33

    The debug mode would show you more information about the installation/upgrade process, but I doubt you’d find anything relevant there. I’m sorry I can’t suggest anything helpful.

  13. Levani says:
    June 29, 2009 at 23:07

    Upgrading several plugins at the same time doesn’t work. It redirects me to the white screen after each update.

  14. White Shadow says:
    June 30, 2009 at 14:09

    I think it’s timing out during the upgrade. Turn on the debug mode in Plugins -> Upgrade Settings and see at which point does it stop (note : when in debug mode, the updater will not reactivate the plugins it updates).

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  16. iMiKE says:
    July 1, 2009 at 05:34

    And whats new in new builds of plugin? Where I can see changelog?

  17. Johnny C says:
    July 1, 2009 at 17:06

    I’ve been getting this error on my php error log when trying to update multiple plugins: [12-Jun-2009 03:47:52] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home3/proveiss/public_html/wp-content/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/oneclick-plugin-updater.php on line 633

    when I click the Upgrade Automatically button, it returns me a 500 server error page and tells me to check the log – which shows the before mentioned message

  18. Johnny C says:
    July 1, 2009 at 17:12

    hmmm there were 2 plugins for upgrade: the first time it gave me an error, but actually upgraded one of the plugins… next time didn’t gave me any error at all and upgraded the other plugin…

  19. White Shadow says:
    July 1, 2009 at 17:32

    @ iMike : See the revision log.

    @ JohnnyC : This should be fixed in the next minor version.

  20. MossackAnme™ says:
    July 4, 2009 at 05:56

    Resolved with your 2.4.13..!!

    I don’t know what really being happened,,bu thanks for your works…

    GodBlessUs.. \(^o^)/

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