Clark-Nikdel-Powell / WP-Admin-Command-Palette

Optimize WordPress admin navigation with a modal window to search for and navigate directly to WordPress admin pages.
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Connect to the WordPress.org Plugin API to install plugins faster #32

Open jhned opened 9 years ago

jhned commented 9 years ago

We could search for and install plugins via the ACP instead of having to go to the plugins page every time. It'd be worth at least checking into seeing whether this is a viable idea or not. https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress.org_API#Plugins

If we implement this, we may need to do it with AJAX, since there doesn't seem to be a way to search the plugins API over HTTP: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/communicating-with-the-wordpressorg-plugin-api--wp-33069

See the second answer here about how to build the plugin install URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5327920/how-to-generate-a-wordpress-plugin-install-link