My new WordPress plugin – WP Enhanced Plugin Manager 1.0
March 7th, 2007 by Martin
Yes I wrote another WordPress plugin. Its purpose is simple – add some additional functionality to WordPress default plugin management. Its original idea came from discussion here and I am already thinking about Backup/Restore plugin activity configuration as new feature for next version of this plugin 
.
All its functionality is done using Javascript, so it requires browser with enabled Javascript support. Plugins are activated using AJA’X’ approach (‘X’ for that I am not using XML for communication with server ). Please report me any cross browser issues with Javascript!
Update
Ok, I did some bug fixing and released an updated version of this plugin with support to Save/Load configuration as well as export. I know that export sounds strange, but I will be working on import functionality as well .
Installation
- Unzip plugin and upload it to your WordPress plugin directory
- Activate plugin using WordPress administration interface and you should be see difference (unless you have disabled Javascript!)
Usage
You can of course choose between zip file or tar.gz file for download. Feel free to contact me if you have any comments. Happy using.
Update to version 1.1
Ok, I did some bug fixing and released an updated version of this plugin with support to Save/Load configuration as well as export. I know that export sounds strange, but I will be working on import functionality as well . It also covers all reported issues(IE7 JS error, problems with UpdateMonitorAgent and some more).
Screenshots
Plugins WordPress
March 9th, 2007 at 1:15 am
How VERY cool! I remember that thread. I’ll definitely be giving this a try. Thank you, Martin!
March 9th, 2007 at 6:33 am
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March 9th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Hi Martin, VERY useful plugin! Thanks a lot.
Anyway, there’s an issue about the “check for updates” routine you adopted.
Since it assumes that a WP user (meant as server) has the SoapClient class installed (and I don’t have it), your plugin returns an error on line 68 of wpplugins_client.php, because PHP doesn’t find the that class declared.
On commenting line 68 the “switch” function that follows, it works; but it looses the “check for updates” functionality.
You could move line 68 and the following “switch” function under the second “if (DEBUG)” statement, allowing the user to change the “DEBUG” definition to true (assuming “false” as default).
Or adopt an alternative way to “check for updates”.
Anyway, VERY NICE plugin, very very useful. Great job!
March 9th, 2007 at 11:06 am
alle: Thank you for quick report. I totally forget about non SOAP word, so sorry! I am working on other update client implementation using NUSOAP library. I will release an updated version today. Once again thank you for your feedback
March 9th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Hi. Cool plugin, so i became a error on my plugins page – “ERROR: TypeError: table has no properties”. whats wrong? (using wp 2.0.9)
March 9th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I get the same error as Elias but I don’t get it on the plugins page directly. I am using “WordPress Update Manager” (http://www.mutube.com/projects/wordpress/update-manager/) and when I have your plugin activated and go to the “update manager” screen I get a POP up that says “ERROR: TypeError: table has no propertiesâ€. I am using WP2.1 and PHP 5.2.1
March 9th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
IM having the same problem as Michael. I am using WP2.1 and PHP 5.2.1
March 9th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
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March 10th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
alle, Elias, Michael, invi: Thank you for report. Well problem is SOAP support of PHP on your server. I fix code that it works even if you do not have this PHP extension enabled. It is ready to download. Please let me know if there will be any other problems.
I am working on workaround and hope it will be ready in a few next days. I have to write own SOAP implementation(lite) or change way of updating plugins…
Thank you
March 10th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Greate. It works now. Once thing i notice was than when i disable some of the plugin it redirected me to your WP Login page.
thanks
March 11th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
invi: It is fixed now and ready to download. If any trouble please let me know. I am know working on saving/restoring of plugin configuration feature. I think it will be ready shortly…
Thanks
March 11th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Hi,
Thanks a lot, pretty sweet!
Only I see in your screen shot there is an edit row, not here and the line is a bit off. Pictures speak louder than words; also notice now there is a horizontal scroll bar.
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/6479/bloggv4.jpg
Thanks,
Will
March 12th, 2007 at 8:16 am
WP Plugins einfach aktivieren, deaktivieren-Erleichterung der Updates Deines Blogs…
Du verwendest viele Plugins. Vor einem Update muss man alle Plugins aus Sicherheitsgründen deaktivieren. Eine irre Klickerei. Das Plugin Enhanced Plugin Manager schafft da Abhilfe.
……
March 12th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Well done, Martin! Thank you for your prompt update.
March 13th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
I don’t know why but I am still having issues on the Update Manager page, the same as I reported last time, no change for me. I did grab the file again and deleted the old files from my server. I have also found that the Enhanced Plugin Management works on the “Plugin Page” ok in Firefox but not in IE7. I get the POP up that says “ERROR: [object Error]” and the plugin does not work. I have checked my web server and show that SOAP client and server is enabled, don’t know if that helps.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Michael: I released new version 1.1 of this plugin with multiple fixes. I did some Javascript code cleaning and now it works fine with IE7,Firefox, Mozilla and Opera (all tested under Win32 only
). I also did some changes in SOAP update agent so everything should be fine now.
Thank you for your report!
March 14th, 2007 at 2:12 am
Ahh, for some reason I guess I didn’t get the new version, even though I downloaded after the fix was there, sorry about that. Progress has been made, now I don’t get any errors in FF or IE on the plugin page, but I still get an error on the “Update Manager” page. I am using the update manager by Martin Fitzpatrick. I get the following error- “window.onload: TypeError:table has no properties-undefined”. I do not get this error if I disable your plugin. I am really sorry to be so much trouble for you
March 14th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Hi,
Um, something is wrong:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1928/screendp2.jpg
As you can see, Edit is missing under action and it looks screwed up because of that…
Any ideas? Running WordPress 2.1.2 by the way…
Thanks a lot for this plug-in,
Will
March 14th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Michael: I can see where is the problem know. I did a fix for users with Update Manager plugin. It is ready for download. It should be fine by now
March 14th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Martin,
Thank you for all the bug fixes- everything is SMOOTH now. I appreciate the work you have put into this.
March 14th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Love the plugin. Much needed functionality for WP.
WP 2.1.2/IE 7
Two things:
1) http://www.kerrywebster.com/images/pic04.gif
Get this error when I activate/deactivate your plugin. Everything seems to work properly afterwards. Just wanted to let you know.
2) http://www.wiso.cz/2007/03/07/my-new-wordpress-plugin-wp-enhanced-plugin-manager-10/
Plugin page reference form your plugin is 404 on your site.
k.
March 15th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Will, Kerry Webster: I see that you both are using Bon Echo alpha 1 on Vista. I am afraid that I can reproduce it right now. I will prepare some Vista testing environment, but it will take me some time. I will let you know as soon as I will fix it.
Thank you for report.
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March 17th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
When I try to deselect all the plug-ins, I get an error 406: “Not Acceptable — An appropriate representation of the requested resource /wp-admin/plugins.php could not be found on this server.”
March 18th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
This is EXACTLY what we’ve been looking for! These features should be default wordPress. Thank you so much for taking the time to develop this great and very useful plugin
March 26th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Does this work fully with PHP 4, or is PHP 5 required for all of the features? (As SOAP support is limited in PHP 4, my host is asking this before enabling SOAP for my account.)
PS. your tab index hijacked my cursor while trying to tab through your comment form, taking me to your top menu instead.
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April 1st, 2007 at 12:17 pm
David: It should woks fine with PHP4, but I will recommend you using PHP5. But from the plugin functionality it is equal.
Ad Tabs: I am working on improving usability (and tabindex is one of tools)…
Thank you for reporting
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:56 am
Martin,
A great plugin. Ideally this should be in core WordPress functionality. Of course there is a lot more management type things that should get added. Thanks for creating this!!!!
One minor development thing…remember to change your plugin header version when you update. I was having the SOAP issue and thought I had loaded 1.1. Both say 1.0, but I actually was running 1.0. The “1.1″ fixed my SOAP error issue.
Mike
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:23 am
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April 3rd, 2007 at 4:11 pm
WP Plugin: WP Enhanced Plugin Manager 1.0…
Chiedo scusa a Steve se pubblico direttamente questo articolo invece che farlo passare per la pubblicazione pianificata ma, visto che a giorni si dovrà fare un nuovo upgrade di WP questo plugin capita proprio a fagiolo.
Questo plugin serve per attivar…
April 9th, 2007 at 10:58 am
I also get the startup error on WP 2.0.9. Have downloaded the newest version. What is strange that it still says 1.0 when I take a look into the source code.
Second: I get an error on WP 2.1.2 when trying to safe my config. “Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in …/wp-content/plugins/wp-enhanced-plugins/wp-enhanced-plugins-manager.php on line 111″
Any ideas?
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April 13th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Christian: I did not tested this plugin on WP 2.0.9, but I will and let you know. About safe configuration on WP 2.1.2, what exact steps you did? Or is there any web about securing configuration?
April 16th, 2007 at 7:07 am
I’ve just installed this and your Enhanced Management plugin. I’ve activated both, but I don’t see any difference in either my plugins section nor my posts/pages sections. I’m using WP 2.1.3 (and am new to WP). Any clues what the issue could be or where I should start looking in order to solve this problem? Thanks!
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April 17th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Bryan: If you can not see any changes in administration interface after successful plugin activation, there must be some error. In that case can you send me more information about browser and operation system you are using? It helps me to reproduce this issue.
Thank you for your report.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
I’m having issues with this plugin because of the number of columns in the update manager.
1. Plugin
2. Version
3. Description
4. Activate
BUT!
#4 is colspan=2 because it goes across the activation toggle button AND a Edit button.
IM thinking this plugin expects to see one less column than WP now has.
I tried messing with the logic in the plugin to modify it but my brain is not running on full steam at the moment. I’ll try again later but I’m also hoping that maybe you can look into it as well.
Great plugin, BTW! Thanks for releasing it!
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:28 am
Geoff: I do not know if I understand you correctly, but I assume that you are using Update Manager plugin and you have some issues with using my plugin with it. Am I it right? What exact issues you have? Can you supply more information/screenshot?
Regards
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May 11th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Nor can Mehtap! I want to say that your site better throughout the World Wide Web
Thank you. Keep it.
May 16th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Just a heads-up. This doesn’t seem to work WP 2.2.
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May 20th, 2007 at 7:46 am
As ping already reported: your wonderful plugin doesn’t work with wp 2.2 unfortunately. – All extra options are disabled and after you’ve activated or deactivated one plugin you get the following error message from your browser: “window.onload: TypeError: rows[i].cells[4] has no properties – undefined”.
Greetz,
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May 20th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I get the same problem as Roland using WP 2.2.
Mike
May 20th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
I’m getting the same problem as roland, too. Sometimes though, the plugin causes every other plugin activated to deactivate.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:49 pm
ping, roland, Mike, brandon: I am working on new version of my plugins, that will be compatible with 2.2 version. Hope it will be done within 24 hours.
Thank you for your report!
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:48 pm
thanks! i really love this plugin.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:25 pm
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May 25th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Thanks. Me as well. It really makes managing the plugin page so much easier.
May 30th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Martin,
Have you fixed the plugin to work with 2.2, as I’ve downloaded from the above link, the zip files are still 1.0 and doesn’t work with 2.2
DG…
http://www.ditii.com
May 31st, 2007 at 9:18 am
I have to say, that 2.2 makes me crazy, but I have a fix for 2.2 now. But there is still one issue to fix, before I can release a new version. I have to make it compatible with previous versions of WordPress. I hope I will make this week.
Thank you for your reports and patience
May 31st, 2007 at 10:23 am
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June 7th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I’m still waiting for your WP 2.2-fix…
WP 2.2 has not your features…
marked all or nothing, and remember not the last state
June 9th, 2007 at 4:31 am
Hi!
I speak very poor english so…
The plugin don’t work in WordPress 2.2!
You con fix it ?
The plugin is great!!
The best!
GoodBye!
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July 2nd, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Martin,
Where do you stand on releasing the upgrade? Can you post the fix as beta for now?
Mike
July 7th, 2007 at 11:40 am
frank, Ninio, Mike: I am sorry, but I am very busy these days. I had a lot of work on commercial projects and only limited free time for open source projects. I think release will be ready within next 5 days.
Thank you for your support
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July 25th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title My new WordPress plugin – WP Enhanced Plugin Manager 1.0 – personal homepage about coding in .NET, Java, PHP and other languages from XML, JavaScript to Perl. Thanks for informative article
July 28th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
When I activate the plugin, I received this message:
window.onload: TypeError: rows[i].cells[4] has no properties – undefined
What’s wrong?
August 5th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
I think I found a solution:
I changed val = rows[i].cells[4].innerHTML; into val = rows[i].childNodes[4].innerHTML; in wp-enhanced-plugins.php (line 237). This works fine in FireFox. Hope this helps anyone.
August 8th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Ben-Inside, Theo Bakker: Thank you for your hotfix. I hope I will release updates soon. I did some design (code) changes to all of my plugins. I know it takes time. Please stay tunned I am back
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November 12th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I installed and activated this plugin, but was getting an error: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_ip() (previously declared in D:\folder\user\naijawire.com\wp-content\plugins\ban\ban.php:50) in D:\folder\user\naijawire.com\wp-content\plugins\wp-enhanced-plugins\wpplugins_client.php on line 16
I then deactivated the WP-Ban plugin by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan and then reactivated your plugin. It looked like it activated but I did not see any changes to my plugin page from the default wp plugin. Can you please look into this two issues? You can please contact me offline for my wp details if needed.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Sorry, my WP version is v2.3 running on an IIS server
December 30th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
WordPress: v2.3.2
MySQL: v5.0.45-community-nt
PHP: v4.4.7
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Firefox v2.0.0.11
Loading plugins page reports: window.onload: TypeError: headline has no properties – undefined.
Regards.
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would this be comnpatible with wo 2.5.1?
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April 26th, 2009 at 8:13 am
will it work with new wp 2.7.1? thanks
April 27th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
ovidiu, dior jadore: Yes, it is comatible with WP 2.7.1., but not the version that is public now. Only one problem is lack of time to create a public release. Thank you for your interest, I will try to release current version asap.
Martin
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