WordPress Tip: Install Multiple Plugins at Once

Written by: Justin Germino

October 12th, 2010 7:00 am - 14 Comments

I had a conversation with Caleb recently over at The Market Secrets Blog about installing WordPress plugins and Caleb happened to mention he saw a plugin called Improved Plugin Installation that will allow you to instantly install as many WordPress plugins as you want just by simply listing the plugin or the URL on a multiline field.

I had to try this plugin for myself and as a WordPress administrator this plugin will save so much time if you create a custom/paste list of all plugins you want for new WordPress blogs.

I installed the Improved Plugin Installation WordPress plugin and saw it presented a list of options on the "Install Plugins" screen in my WordPress Dashboard. I tested it out by listing a slew of WordPress plugins and clicking "Install Now"

This plugin does exactly what it says and will instantly install all plugins listed, note though that you have to have the formal plugin name exactly pasted right (or the plugin URL from WordPress.org/extend or else it will fail to find the plugin.

If you are a WordPress blogger and you like to install/configure plugins regularly or you build WordPress sites for clients then this plugin is fantastic at automatically installing a group of "predefined" plugins instantly from the WordPress dashboard. This is ideal for situations where you don’t have FTP access to a clients web hosting provider and doesn’t even require you to download the plugins to your PC to upload them to the site first.

You can easily see a results page which shows which plugins succeeded or failed:

The only ones that have failed are ones that are already installed or the name of the plugin was typo’d from my testing.

If you are a WordPress admin and work on more than 1 WordPress blog or setup blogs fairly frequently, then I recommend you give the Improved Plugin Installation WordPress plugin a try, this is now one of my Must Have plugins for WordPress.

The plugin also comes with a bookmarklet to let you instantly install WordPress plugins while you are visiting the WordPress.org website and browsing plugins.

-Dragon Blogger

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Nasul

This method is interesting but only for sites with good hosting so that you don't get de memory exceeded error.

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Jill@PlugIncome

Wow, great time saver. I will discuss this plugin on my WP plugin site. Thanks for the info!

Justin Germino

This works great especially if you help others build Wordpress sites.

Robert

Oh my god! I wish I had found this ages ago when I was setting up blogs! it used to take ages to get all the plugins up and running!

oh liking the new blog layout, haven't been around in a while!

Yeah this plugin really rocks, and thanks for the comment on the new blog theme.

Udegbunam Chukwudi@Wordpress Blog Setup

Prelovac's Plugin Central does the same thing. Discovered it like 2 months ago and I've been using it ever since. Works like a charm ;-)

Kimi

Thanks for sharing the plugin.

I personally would just install them manually, avoiding uneccessary plugin.

But we can probably uninstall this plugin after the work done lol..

Kimberly Castleberry

That looks like a lovely plugin for those that don't bulk install from FTP on a new blog they're setting up. I have a plugin collection sitting in a folder that I just ftp up. The advantage of this plugin, while it needs uninstalled when we're done, is that all the copies are immediately current, whereas I have to go then do a mass upgrade of them. Good find Justin!
Kimberly

Dave@WordPress Tips, Tricks &amp; Tutorials

This is an excellent plugin. For someone who frequently does installations, this will certainly speed up the installation process. I'm just about to set up another website for a client and will be trying this out. Thanks for the tip!

This plugin makes it so much easier when setting up new blogs or blogs for clients, that is what I find it most ideal for.

Tuan @Tek3D

What an amazing plugin, I wish I know it sooner as I wasted much time to install plugins for my blogs. I couldn't use FTP to copy plugins as its settings are different, so I had to do it manually one by one.
Thanks for sharing.

The plugin works very very well.

Caleb

Glad to see it works as promised unlike some plugins where you have to tweak out the coding or that refuse to work in alignment with other plugins you may already have installed.