Ticket #6015 (assigned enhancement)

Opened 4 months ago

Last modified 3 weeks ago

Allow plugin installations via web interface.

Reported by: DD32 Assigned to: westi (accepted)
Priority: normal Milestone: 2.6
Component: Administration Version:
Severity: normal Keywords: plugin install blessed summerofcode
Cc:

Description

Follow-on from: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5586#comment:30

As a natural extension from the plugin-upgrade code, I've written up a plugin-installer, It currently allows the installation of plugins from WordPress.org which are available via the RSS feeds.

It needs a fair bit of work i'll admit, This is simply a first scrape, I'd have loved to have posted this in time for 2.5, But I feel it might be cutting it too close. (Have to respect the feature freeze :))

I'll be following this up with a Diff of trunk shortly, the diff code will be newer than whats available as the plugin in the before linked ticket. (Fiddling with a few things i thought of as i integrate it in).

Attachments

6015.diff (19.4 kB) - added by DD32 on 02/27/08 09:09:09.
First (relitivly) quick scrape of integration.

Change History

02/27/08 09:09:09 changed by DD32

  • attachment 6015.diff added.

First (relitivly) quick scrape of integration.

(follow-up: ↓ 2 ) 03/23/08 08:32:12 changed by DD32

Closed #6359 as a dupe of this.

It'd be cool if next to the "Download" links on the dashboard were "Install" links that installed the plugin much like an update would do.

The attached diff didnt doesnt do that, But i had changed the download link to "View Page | Install"

Perhaps even an option at WordPress.org to specify the URL to your WordPress install which would enable an "Install" button that would take you to your blog, confirm (to avoid exploiting), and then install the plugin.

Thats a nice thought, that'd be a bit more of an integration between .com, .org, and self-hosted blogs though i'd think (as most people have a .com account which is registered to a self-hosted blog for use with akismet/wp stats)

I've been contemplating suggesting implementing this ticket as a gsoc proposal. but considering it was similar last year.. (Ok, i learnt a lot last year and since then).

(in reply to: ↑ 1 ) 03/23/08 09:49:35 changed by Viper007Bond

Replying to DD32:

Thats a nice thought, that'd be a bit more of an integration between .com, .org, and self-hosted blogs though i'd think (as most people have a .com account which is registered to a self-hosted blog for use with akismet/wp stats)

True, but the integration wouldn't have to be as in-depth as one might think. Just a URL to the WordPress install and then .org tags like /wp-admin/plugin-install.php?plugin=the-slug-here and bam, done.

03/23/08 10:55:13 changed by DD32

True, but the integration wouldn't have to be as in-depth as one might think. Just a URL to the WordPress install and then .org tags

I do agree with you, It would be simple, and could possibly be very beneficial to the general users. See what comes up i guess in the final interfaces :)

04/23/08 00:01:14 changed by ryan

  • keywords changed from plugin install to plugin install blessed.

04/23/08 00:26:33 changed by matt

  • keywords changed from plugin install blessed to plugin install blessed summerofcode.

Linking the SoC project:

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/wordpress/appinfo.html?csaid=51D2766AD87F1901

04/23/08 00:41:36 changed by DD32

blessed summerofcode.

Cheers :) I was just coming over to post that.

06/20/08 15:26:16 changed by westi

  • owner changed from anonymous to westi.
  • status changed from new to assigned.