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Currently it won't work with\nolder versions, i.e. PHP 4. Please be patient until I've fixed that.<\/p>\n\n<p>But it's possible that this plugin will never work with PHP 4 because\nit's likely that I will not find the time to implement that. So please\nconsider updating your installation of PHP.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you'd like to help me fixing compatibility issues write me an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianschenk.org\/legal-notice\/#contact\" title=\"Contact me\">e-mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Videos<\/h3>\n\n<p>Have a look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianschenk.org\/projects\/wordpress-extension-manager\/video-for-this-plugin\/\" title=\"Introduction to Extension Manager for WordPress\">video<\/a> to see how it works.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Licence<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin is released under the GPL.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Translation<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin is available in these languages:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>English<\/li>\n<li>German (I'm working on it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>If you want to help me translating it into other languages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianschenk.org\/legal-notice\/#contact\" title=\"Contact me\">drop me a line<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<p>Before you begin with the installation read the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/extension-manager\/other_notes\/\">notes on compatibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Unzip the plugin into your wp-content\/plugins directory<\/li>\n<li>Create these directories inside wp-content\/plugins\/extension-manager:\n\n<ul>\n<li>plugins<\/li>\n<li>themes<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li>Change the permissions of the wp-content\/plugins directory to 0777. Alternatively you can change the owner of this directory to the same user who is running the webserver.<\/li>\n<li>Do the same thing you did in the last step with these directories:\n\n<ul>\n<li>wp-content\/themes<\/li>\n<li>wp-content\/plugins\/extension-manager\/plugins<\/li>\n<li>wp-content\/plugins\/extension-manager\/themes<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin at the plugin administration page<\/li>\n<li>Start using the plugin (Options -&gt; Extension Manager).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt>I've successfully installed a plugin\/theme but it doesn't show up on the plugins\/themes screen.<\/dt>\n<dd><p>If this happens you can't activate the plugin\/theme because the content\nof the ZIP file that contains the plugin\/theme is broken. There are some\nplugins\/themes around that have some extra directories in their ZIP\nfiles, e.g.:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>\"wp-content\/plugins\/[plugin-name]\/[files]\"<\/li>\n<li>\"wp-content\/themes\/[theme-name]\/[files]\"<\/li>\n<li>\"[plugin-name]\/[plugin-name]\/[files]\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>I don't really want to support this stuff since this would lead to some\nextra guess-work.<\/p>\n\n<p>I recommend this: if you encounter a \"broken\" plugin\/theme just contact\nthe author and politely ask him whether he might fix this. The standard\nlayout of a ZIP file should be \"[plugin\/theme-name]\/[files...]\".<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>","raw_excerpt":"This plugin helps you to install, upgrade, delete and search for plugins and themes.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/chschenk"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/te.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}