Title: Shift8 Remote Management
Author: shift8
Published: <strong>February 23, 2018</strong>
Last modified: July 17, 2019

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Shift8 Remote Management

 By [shift8](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shift8/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/shift8-remote-update.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/shift8-remote-update/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/shift8-remote-update/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/shift8-remote-update/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/shift8-remote-update/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/shift8-remote-update/)

## Description

A wordpress plugin that implements an API framework for you to control and manage
one or many WordPress sites from a central location. The intention is to offer the
ability to create your own web interface to interact with all of your WordPress 
sites, allowing you to update core, update plugins, install plugins, deactivate 
plugins and many more actions. A web interface is the intended centralized platform
however management systems like Ansible, Salt and Puppet can be used to interact
with your WordPress sites.

This plugin opens up your entire wordpress site to be accessed as an external API
service. The idea behind this plugin is for you to access multiple wordpress sites
to manage and execute actions such as updating plugins and WordPress core as an 
API service. Anyone that has the API key will be able to execute these actions on
your WordPress site.

A python script is available in the bin folder of this plugin to provide a simple
example of how one could interact with this plugin in order to perform actions such
as updating plugins or WP Core remotely with API calls, authenticated with the generated
KEY of course.

Future versions of this plugins may interact with a web service hosted and managed
by Shift8, however currently anyone can interact with this plugin using the example
python script as a starting point.

### API Action Commands

Find an overview of the API commands that can be executed through this plugin. You
can execute these commands by creating your own web application to interface with
this plugin, or create a quick python script (like the example script provided here
in the bin folder).

#### get_plugin_version

This will provide the current version of the plugin

#### get_filesystem_method

This will provide the currently defined filesystem method used for modifying files
in the WordPress installation

#### get_supported_filesystem_methods

This will provide a list of supported filesystem methods currently available for
the WordPress installation

#### get_wp_version

This will return the currently running WordPress version

#### get_constants

This will return any defined constants

#### upgrade_core

This will initiate a WordPress core upgrade to the latest stable version

#### get_plugins

This will return a list of currently installed WordPress plugins

#### update_plugin / upgrade_plugin

This will initiate a plugin update with the plugin to update specified as an additional
argument

#### validate_plugin / install_plugin / activate_plugin / deactivate_plugin / uninstall_plugin

This will validate / install / activate / deactivate or uninstall a plugin with 
the additional argument specified being the specific plugin to act on.

#### get_themes

This will retun the currently installed themes

#### install_theme / activate_theme / update_theme / upgrade_theme / delete_theme

This will install / activate / update / upgrade or delete a specific theme with 
the additional argument given specifying which theme.

#### get_site_info

This will return the site url, home url, admin url, currently detected web host 
and site summary.

#### get_option

This will return the value of a specific administrative option with the additional
argument given specifying which option value to return

#### update_option / delete_option

This will update or delete a specific value for an administrative option with the
additional argument given specifying which option value to update

### Want to see the plugin in action?

You can view three example sites where this plugin is live :

 * Example Site 1 : [WordPress Hosting](https://www.stackstar.com)
 * Example Site 2 : [Web Design in Toronto](https://www.shift8web.ca)

### Features

 * Settings area to allow you to define the API key that authenticates and passes
   commands to the api
 * Ability to list all plugins
 * Ability to set wordpress options
 * Ability to update all plugins
 * Ability to update wordpress core
 * Ability to install/deinstall/activate/deactivate plugins

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Admin area

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/shift8-remote` directory, or
    install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
 3. Navigate to the plugin settings page and define your settings

## FAQ

  I tested it on myself and its not working for me!

You should monitor the request log to see if it is able to hit the site. Also monitor
the server logs of your WordPress site to identify if any problems (i.e. curl) are
happening.

  What can I use to interact with this plugin to control my WordPress site?

Literally any programming language that is capable of making web requests. In the“
bin” folder of this plugin is an example Python script that can be used to submit
queries via the plugin. Future iterations of this plugin may include additional 
examples for PHP, Ruby and Javascript frameworks.

  Do you provide a service to interact with this plugin that I can sign up for?

Currently, not at this time. This is currently being developed and will be announced
via a plugin update. The idea is to give the power to the end user to connect and
manage themselves.

  There are errors and I cannot connect!

Double check that your web host supports the latest version of PHP. Ideally you 
SHOULD be on PHP v7+. If you are lower than PHP 5.2 the plugin will deactivate itself.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Shift8 Remote Management” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ shift8 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shift8/)
 *   [ Jera Nirodha Simpson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeramynirodha/)
 *   [ bmett ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bmett/)
 *   [ Human Made ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/humanmade/)
 *   [ Tom Willmot ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/willmot/)
 *   [ Joe Hoyle ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joehoyle/)
 *   [ Daniel Bachhuber ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielbachhuber/)
 *   [ Matthew Haines-Young ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattheu/)
 *   [ Paul de Wouters ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pauldewouters/)
 *   [ cuvelier ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cuvelier/)
 *   [ tcrsavage ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tcrsavage/)

[Translate “Shift8 Remote Management” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/shift8-remote-update)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shift8-remote-update/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/shift8-remote-update/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/shift8-remote-update/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/shift8-remote-update/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.00

 * Stable version created

#### 1.01

 * Added new element for plugin file to be included in json array returned from 
   plugin queries in order to properly update

#### 1.02

 * Added API function to return is_active boolean for better error checking

#### 1.03

 * WordPress 5 compatibility

## Meta

 *  Version **1.03**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.2.24**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shift8-remote-update/)
 * Tags
 * [api](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/api/)[Manage WordPress](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/manage-wordpress/)
   [management](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/management/)[staging](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/staging/)
   [Wordpress Automation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wordpress-automation/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/shift8-remote-update/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ shift8 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shift8/)
 *   [ Jera Nirodha Simpson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeramynirodha/)
 *   [ bmett ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bmett/)
 *   [ Human Made ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/humanmade/)
 *   [ Tom Willmot ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/willmot/)
 *   [ Joe Hoyle ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joehoyle/)
 *   [ Daniel Bachhuber ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielbachhuber/)
 *   [ Matthew Haines-Young ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattheu/)
 *   [ Paul de Wouters ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pauldewouters/)
 *   [ cuvelier ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cuvelier/)
 *   [ tcrsavage ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tcrsavage/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/shift8-remote-update/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](https://www.shift8web.ca)