• Contributors: David Decker, contributors
• Tags: plugin installer, cleaner, plugins, installer, search, admin, focus, efficient, deckerweb
• Requires at least: 4.0.0
• Tested up to: 4.7-alpha
• Stable tag: master
• Stable version: 1.4.0
• Donate link: http://ddwb.me/9s
• License: GPL-2.0+
• License URI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php

Cleaner Plugin Installer experience, replacing the "Featured" tab content with bigger search. Additionally added "Topics" tab with curated topic tag list.

Cleaner Start Page for "Add Plugins" (Installer)

A LARGE search box to find plugins for installing more easily and way faster.

No clutter. The regular content of the "Featured" tab was removed: not the 6 same old plugin cards cards any longer and no useless tag cloud anymore!

Plus: set the number of displayed plugin cards per page via "Screen Options" tab (on top right corner).

As of WordPress 4.0+, going to "Add Plugins" page and being welcomed by always the same old 6 featured plugin cards annoyed me big time! So I thought on how to change this default behavior. Due to WordPress' genius Hooks & Filter functionality I could easily tweak this via my plugin.

Now it starts with what should have been the default (in my opinion) from the beginning: a large and nice plugin search box - because that's what I do all the day :). Side benefit: better performance as no external plugin card content has to be loaded!

And there you have it, a one-purpose admin helper plugin aiming at (super) administrators and webmasters searching for and installing plugins from WordPress.org repository on a daily basis.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD42vNhuArA] original video link: Screencast by plugin developer David Decker

• Cleaner, more easy, more useful!
• Improved performance of plugin-install.php admin start page!
• Additional curated topics with list of plugin tags (from WordPress.org) for lots of use cases etc.
• Additional basic integration of "WPCore Plugin Manager" base plugin and service, as well as "WP Favs".
• Added "Screen Options" tab (on top right corner) to set number of plugin cards per page on a per user basis.
• Tweaked "ZIP Uploader page" - larger file upload field, plus bigger button.
• Search field and plugins number integration for "At a Glance" and "Right Now" (Multisite) Dashboard widgets.
• Optional "Slim Mode" to hide various help texts etc. from the plugin - for power users (see bottom of FAQ page).
• Highly extensible: Additional hooks and filters in place so you could easily tweak my plugin's output (or add, or remove) if ever needed :)
• Lightweight, simple one-purpose plugin. Loads only within /wp-admin/ when and where needed.
• Fully embracing Multisite Network modus, yeah!
• Fully translateable!

Requirements/ Prerequisites

• WordPress v4.0.0 or higher
• At least capability of install_plugins for your user role (to access the plugin installer page)!
• PLEASE: For security and best support, always use the latest stable version of WordPress!

Manual Upload

• Download current .zip archive from master branch here, URL: https://github.com/deckerweb/cleaner-plugin-installer/archive/master.zip
• Unzip the package, then rename the folder to cleaner-plugin-installer, then upload renamed folder via SFTP/ FTP to your WordPress plugin directory
• Activate the plugin

Via "GitHub Updater" Plugin (recommended!)

• Install & activate the "GitHub Updater" plugin, get from here: https://github.com/afragen/github-updater
• Recommended: set your API Token in the plugin's settings
• Go to "Settings > GitHub Updater > Install Plugin"
• Paste the GitHub URL https://github.com/deckerweb/cleaner-plugin-installer in the "Plugin URI" field (branch "master" is pre-set), then hit the "Install Plugin" button there
• Install & activate the plugin

Updates

• Are done via WordPress.org (or the plugin "GitHub Updater" (see above)) - leveraging the default WordPress update system!
• for GitHub Updater only: Setting your GitHub API Token is recommended! :)
• It's so easy and seamless you won't find any better solution for this ;-)

• See Description above :)

= Localization & Internationalizaton:

• Used textdomain: cleaner-plugin-installer
• Default .pot file included
• German translations included (de_DE)
• Plugin's own path for translations: wp-content/plugins/cleaner-plugin-installer/languages/cleaner-plugin-installer-de_DE.mo
• Recommended: Global WordPress lang dir path for translations: wp-content/languages/plugins/cleaner-plugin-installer-de_DE.mo ---> NOTE: if this file/path exists it will be loaded at higher priority than the plugin path! This is the recommended path & way to store your translations as it is update-safe and allows for custom translations!
• Recommended translation tools: Poedit Pro v1.8+ or WordPress Plugin "Loco Translate" or your IDE/ Code Editor or old WordPress plugin "Codestyling Localization" (for the brave who know what they are doing :) )

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Copyright (c) 2014-2016 David Decker - DECKERWEB.de