Christian Schenk

<p>If you’re a WordPress admin you probably want a plugin with the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>install, update and delete plugins and themes</li>
<li>it should be able to handle various locations, i.e. at least these <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins#Plugin_Repositories" title="WordPress Codex Plugin Repositories" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin repositories</a> and maybe some from <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress%20plugins" title="Google search on WordPress plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">somewhere</a> else.</li>
<li>basic search functionality for all these plugins and themes</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugins lets you do (almost) all of these things.</p>
<p>Have a look at this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BzX7bv3DgM" title="Introduction to Extension Manager for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">video</a> to see how it works.</p>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>This plugin was tested with PHP 5.2.x. Currently it won’t work with<br />
older versions, i.e. PHP 4. Please be patient until I’ve fixed that.</p>
<p>But it’s possible that this plugin will never work with PHP 4 because<br />
it’s likely that I will not find the time to implement that. So please<br />
consider updating your installation of PHP.</p>
<p>If you’d like to help me fixing compatibility issues write me an <a href="http://www.christianschenk.org/legal-notice/#contact" title="Contact me" rel="nofollow ugc">e-mail</a>.</p>
<h3>Videos</h3>
<p>Have a look at this <a href="http://www.christianschenk.org/projects/wordpress-extension-manager/video-for-this-plugin/" title="Introduction to Extension Manager for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">video</a> to see how it works.</p>
<h3>Licence</h3>
<p>This plugin is released under the GPL.</p>
<h3>Translation</h3>
<p>This plugin is available in these languages:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German (I’m working on it)</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to help me translating it into other languages <a href="http://www.christianschenk.org/legal-notice/#contact" title="Contact me" rel="nofollow ugc">drop me a line</a>.</p>


Extension Manager

This plugin helps you to install, upgrade, delete and search for plugins and themes.

Julio Potier

<p>Imagine you get hacked, or you had to modify a plugin’s core.</p>
<p>Now, all these plugins (hacked or modified) need to be reinstalled.</p>
<p>You can not do it, you can not “fake update” them too.</p>
<p>You have to delete them, then reupload them, boring.</p>
<p>Now, just check each plugin’s box you want to be reinstalled, chose “Update” in the action select box, “Apply”, done!</p>
<p>WordPress will now let you update them even if they are already up to date 😉</p>


Force Plugin Updates

As someone who has cleaned up dozens of WordPress sites, I can say the old way of reuploading plugins is no longer needed thanks to this awesome plugin. Definitely a plugin to use when your site has been compromised.



Great for Site Cleanup

You may need to reinstall any of your plugins, juste check the plugins' box, select "Update", and that's all!

Extension Manager vs Force Plugin Updates