Nashwan D

<p>Reinstall Plugins is a simple plugin that extends the WordPress built-in package installer. WordPress by default allows plugins installation by uploading ZIP archive files. However, the site’s admins cannot upgrade any plugin using the same standard process. This plugin enables you to do so and saves you valuable time and effort.</p>
<p>WordPress sites’ owners or developers used to upload their plugin updates using techniques like FTP/SSH/File Managers..etc. This consumes their time and even puts the website at a possible security risk, especially if they forgot the archive files publicly accessible or messed up something else.</p>
<p>Reinstall Plugins will fix and remove the common WordPress limitation “destination already exists” and delete the targeted plugin directory before installing the newer version. After that WordPress will take place and continue the regular installation or upgrade process.</p>
<p>A common use-case would be when a plugin developer wants to upload his plugin upgrades easily without the need for advanced deployment tools.</p>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<p>Developers can contribute to the source code on the <a href="https://github.com/nash-ye/wp-reinstall-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Repository</a>.</p>


Reinstall Plugins

As a plugin author it is very helpful to tell beta testers about this plugin.

Thanks!

Joe

Very handy!

A simple plugin to allow plugins re-installation.

Chris Jean

<p><strong>WP Easy Uploader</strong> was created to make the life of WordPress bloggers easier by allowing an Administrator to add plugins, themes, and any type of file to WordPress directly from inside WordPress. You no longer have to load up an FTP client just to try out that latest plugin or to upload a text document for people to download.</p>
<h4>Current Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Upload any type of file to either the standard Uploads directory (just as images do when you are creating posts and pages) or to a path of your choosing.</li>
<li>Manual paths are automatically created if they don’t exist.</li>
<li>Easily upload plugins directly to the plugins directory and theme files directly to the themes directory.</li>
<li>You can select to have archives automatically extracted to their destination. This means that plugins and themes will be taken care of for you, but it also means that you can zip up a large set of files and upload them quickly into a folder on your site. Currently zip, tar, gz, tar.gz, tgz, and tar.bz2 archives are supported.</li>
<li>Options for overwriting existing files, renaming the fle if a file with that name already exists (or if overwriting fails), removal of the archive after file extraction, and forcing extracted files to be contained in a folder.</li>
<li>Now supports WordPress Mu.</li>
<li>Now supports internationalization. The PO file is available in the lang directory. Currently, Turkish (tr), mainland Chinese (zhCN), Brazilian Portuguese (ptBR), German (deDE), Indonesian (idID), and Spanish (esES) translations are available.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Note</h4>
<p>Many of the features offered by this plugin are now offered in the core of WordPress. For example, the latest versions of WordPress can now install plugins and themes from the admin interface. You can install plugins by going to <strong>Plugins > Add New</strong> and themes by going to <strong>Appearance > Add New Themes</strong>. Thus, this plugin may have limited added value for you.</p>
<p>This plugin is currently useful for doing the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Installing plugins and themes without downloading the files first and then having to upload them back to the server.</li>
<li>Uploading large batches of files easily by first zipping the files and then having <strong>WP Easy Uploader</strong> unzip them into the destination directory.</li>
<li>Load files to specific locations on your site when FTP may be restricted or blocked by the local network.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Planned Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customizable permissions to allow for users with privileges below Administrator to upload files. My idea is for Administrators to have full access to all the uploader’s functionality while people below Administrator won’t have access to upload themes, plugins, or to manual paths and won’t be able to overwrite files or extract archives.</li>
<li>If the above is implemented, I’d like to provide a menu of options for tailoring what minimum access level is required to access each function.</li>
<li>Also if the first item is implemented, I’d like to add logging in order to keep track of who uploaded what and when. This would be useful for keeping track of anyone (such as a contributor) who is using the file space inappropriately.</li>
<li>Track the uploaded files so that they can be removed later on. This is in response to how some people have permissions issues where their FTP/SSH user is different from the user that the webserver runs as.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>PHP 4+</li>
<li>WordPress 2.2+</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version History</h3>
<ul>
<li>1.0.1 – 2008-06-27 – Initial release version</li>
<li>1.0.2 – 2008-06-28 – Updated to support WordPress Mu</li>
<li>1.0.3 – 2008-06-30 – Added support for PHP 4</li>
<li>1.0.4 – 2008-07-02 – Fixed compatibility bug with the BackUpWordPress plugin</li>
<li>1.0.5 – 2008-07-02 – Internationalized the plugin. Now it’s ready for translators.</li>
<li>1.0.6 – 2008-07-06 – Added Turkish and Spanish translations. Fixed compatibility issue with the WeatherIcon plugin. Fixed parsing error with Windows servers.</li>
<li>1.0.7 – 2008-07-08 – Added mainland Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese translations. Added 2.6 support.</li>
<li>1.0.7a – 2008-07-10 – Added German translation.</li>
<li>1.0.7b – 2008-07-21 – Added Indonesian translation.</li>
<li>1.0.8 – 2008-09-27 – Added file required by PEAR in fringe cases.</li>
<li>1.0.8a – 2009-07-17 – Updated listed compatibility to WordPress version 2.8.1</li>
<li>1.0.9 – 2009-07-17 – WordPress no longer likes letters in versions, so here’s version 1.0.9. 🙂</li>
<li>1.0.10 – 2009-07-20 – Updated listed compatibility to WordPress version 2.8.2</li>
<li>1.0.11 – 2009-07-20 – readme.txt update</li>
</ul>
<h3>More Information</h3>
<p>For more information about this plugin and its development, visit the <a href="http://gaarai.com/wp-easy-uploader/" title="wp easy uploader home page" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Easy Uploader Home Page</a>.</p>


WP Easy Uploader

Easily upload any type of content without the need for FTP. You can even upload plugin and theme archives, and the files will be extracted for you.

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