That was just a short list of wishes that a pure MUST HAVE I’ll come up with some more in due time … Thanks for feedback, I have been playing around with new version and testing it.

Alex

1. Built-in backup. Not in the pipeline that I know of, but like you said, there are at least two good plugins I know of.

2. Core updates. I’d consider putting money on this being in version 2.6 or 2.7 depending on how hard it is to do, given the status of #4 below.

3. & 5. Install plugins from within admin interface. Someone just suggested this for a Google Summer of Code project on the wp-hackers mailing list today, and Matt Mullenweg piped up the he thought it would be a great idea, and he also likes the idea of expanding this to themes. His support means this has a pretty good chance of happening, esp. if the GSoC project gets approved/picked!

4. Plugin auto-upgrade. This was in 2.5 RC1 and is even better in 2.5 RC2. It even tries to do it directly on the file system and falls back to FTP (prompting for your credentials) if that fails. So it’s already there…no more wishing!

That leaves 1 as not likely (they could have done it already, it’s easy enough and the plugins exist) and 2 as a future possibility, with the other three either there or a near-term possibility. I think you need some new wishes
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I had a similar thinking but as I have learned it doesn’t work very well what you can do is create a folder with all your plugins and update them in one swoop but it will still require activation and configuration, which to my best attempt is unable to “duplicated”. There is more to the plugins activation then just the database entires - it seems. So keeping a reference file with all your settings for copy/paste alone with folder I mentioned above might be your best option ..

Enjoy,

Barbara

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