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Why does Post Indexer not install from dashboard like Comment Indexer?

Just curious. It kinda throws me off, since I expect it to be installed in the mu-plugins directory or something special. Is that function lacking a hangover from the time the plugin was installed there? Or perhaps because of the table creation?

Thu, 4 Oct 2012 6:37:23
  • aecnu
    • WP Unicorn

    Greetings maiki,

    Thank you for the great question, it is certainly appreciated.

    Though I do not know specifically why the Post Indexer plugin cannot be installed from the dashboard, I do know that there are a few plugins that just cannot be installed in this manner and must be installed via FTP i.e. Multi DB, Domain Mapping, and more.

    Thank you for being a WPMU Dev Community Member!

    Cheers, Joe

  • aecnu
    • WP Unicorn

    Greetings maiki,

    Thank you for your insistence and no problem.

    I know it cannot be done. I do not know the coding reason and I am not a coder.

    This ticket is open for the whole world to give a better answer.

    I gave a straight forward truthful answer and then marked the ticket as resolved.

    Lets see someone beat my answer that does not have an intimate knowledge of the code line by line.

    Cheers, Joe

  • Timothy
    • Chief Pigeon

    Hey there.

    I guess I’m missing the point on this one, the plugin is installed from the Network area, it’s a Network plugin.

    Admin –> Network Admin –> Plugins.

    Fewer plugins use the Must Use aka MU-plugins folder now, Networking activating installs it across the board anyway.

    Comment Indexer is also installed from the Network Plugins area.

    Thanks.

  • maiki
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    @Timothy, not sure if you were talking to me or not, but I agree, the plugin should be installed from the Network area (wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=wpmudev-plugins). However, rather than an install link, it was a download link pointing to the page for the plugin.

    Another example of a plugin that requires that is Mutli-domains (attached image shows the button [nevermind, image too big, but you probably know what I mean]). That makes sense, since it requires that you place files outside your plugins directory. I was just wondering why I had to download the Post Indexer and install it manually when that wasn’t a requirement for it.

  • Timothy
    • Chief Pigeon

    Hey again.

    @Timothy, not sure if you were talking to me or not, but I agree, the plugin should be installed from the Network area (wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=wpmudev-plugins). However, rather than an install link, it was a download link pointing to the page for the plugin.

    Ohh I see what you mean now, you mean in the WPMU DEV Dashboard it’s a download link rather than an install link.

    I just tested and can confirm that. I think before we didn’t fully understand at first, sorry about that.

    Let me mark this as a bug for now which Barry will look into this and comment indexer. In the mean time you can manually install it as you.

    Thanks for pointing this out.