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.

Kyght

<p>Tracks the distribution of your installable products. The plugin provides an ajax API to accept installation registrations & usage data. Also provides a mechanism for pushing product upgrades to clients.  Custom build tags can also be used to track clients with customized products and push custom upgrades to these clients.</p>
<p>Plugin REST API<br />
    http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php</p>
<pre><code>Actions:
   regupdate  - Adds\Updates a registration record
   useapp     - Updates product\version usage and registered client use
   upgrade    - Checks for a product upgrade with a higher version number

Note: Product and Registration records are automatically added\updated via inbound API calls. Only Upgrades are added via the Admin console.

Example (.Net API call to register a client)

    **Registration**
        var response = HttpHelper.Post(URL, new NameValueCollection() {
            { "action", "regupdate" },                
            { "sky", SecretKey },  //Secret ID must match ID in your WordPress|Settings|InstallTracker              
            { "product", Product },
            { "ver", Version },
            { "custom", Custom },

            { "trackid", RegID }, //TrackID from previous registration to allow updates, blank for new
            { "key", key },       //GUID generated by your installation (Format: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 )
            { "name", name },
            { "email", email },
            { "phone", phone },
            { "contact", contact },
            { "addr", address },
            { "city", city },
            { "state", state },
            { "zipcode", zipcode}
        });    

        var str = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(response);
        if (str != null && str.Equals("0")) return false; //Secret key might not match
        var outObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Registration>(str);
        if (outObject.valid == "TRUE")
        {
            RegID = outObject.regID; //Returned Registration ID for future updates
            return true;
        }    

    **Usage**
        var pars = new NameValueCollection() {
            { "action", "useapp" },                
            { "sky", SecretKey },                
            { "product", Product },
            { "ver", Version },
            { "custom", Custom },

            { "trackid", RegID }, //TrackID from previous registration (optional)
            { "key", key }        //GUID generated by your installation (optional)
        };


    **Upgrade**
        var pars = new NameValueCollection() {
            { "action", "upgrade" },                
            { "sky", SecretKey },                
            { "product", Product },
            { "ver", Version },
            { "custom", Custom },
        };
</code></pre>
<p>.Net API wrapper client library is available at www.kyght.com (http://www.kyght.com/?page_id=147).<br />
Other client libraries will be available later on GitHub (https://github.com/kyght/InstallTracker).</p>
<p>.Net client dll Usage</p>
<p>installTrack = new Tracker(\”http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php\”, \”YourProduct\”, \”2.1.16.80\”, \”666745\”);</p>
<ul>
<li>installTrack.Register(String key, String name, String email, String contact, String phone, String address, String city, String state, String zipcode)</li>
<li>installTrack.Usage(String key, OnTrackerComplete onComplete )</li>
<li>installTrack.UpgradeAvailable(OnUpgradeAvailable onUpgrade)</li>
<li>installTrack.Download(String fileurl, String filename, System.ComponentModel.AsyncCompletedEventHandler onComplete, DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler onProgress)</li>
</ul>


Install Tracker

Tracks the distribution of your installable product. Usage statistics, Registrations and Upgrades.

Extension Manager vs Install Tracker