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.

Shannon Black

<p>Automates the entire process for migrating your wordpress install from a test/development/source to the live/destination domain. Also allows the ignoring of certain files/directories not needed to upload (e.g /cache, /.git, /.svn /.gitignore etc etc).</p>
<p>Here’s a list of what is accomplished during an automated deployment:</p>
<ul>
<li>If supported, archives the entire wordpress installation for compressed upload</li>
<li>Checks the file permissions</li>
<li>Uploads either the archive or each individual file</li>
<li>An uploaded archive is then extracted server side</li>
<li>Uploading each individual file is maximized by upload speed by asynchronously uploading up to 10 files</li>
<li>You can choose to ignore a list of folders or files for the upload – example cache folder or repository folders</li>
<li>Dumps/Exports your entire database and uploads it to the live server</li>
<li>Automatically switches old URL with the new URL</li>
<li>Automatically updates the wp-config.php accordingly</li>
<li>Flushes wordpress rewrite rules</li>
</ul>
<p>If you are scared about the automated transfer and wish to do it manually, then just download the MySQL dump with the updated URL.</p>
<p>Disclaimer: Please backup any files or mysql tables on the live server. Although Live Server Deploy aims to provide a seamless deploy, we cannot guarantee that nothing unexpected can happen that might damage your content. Use at own risk.</p>


WP Live Server Deploy

Automates the entire process for migrating your wordpress install from a test/development/source server to the live/destination server.

Extension Manager vs WP Live Server Deploy