Title: Plugin installation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin installation

 *  [zbraniecki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zbraniecki/)
 * (@zbraniecki)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-5/)
 * Hi, I’m testing trunk builds of WordPress 2.7. I want to prepare a set of customizations
   for WordPress (like, theme and two plugins) so that my users can deploy WordPress
   2.7 with those customizations.
 * I especially care about their ability to easily keep website secure since they
   are not advanced web admins and my goal is to reduce to minimum time they have
   to spent on maintaining their website.
 * So far I can hope for automatic plugin updates, and, as far as I heard wordpress
   core updates. (can I test it anyhow?).
    From what I know I cannot give them ability
   to automatically update themes. Is that right?
 * My question is about updates of plugins.
    I’m trying to test it and it doesn’t
   seem to work. I set up wordpress on a local machine and tried to install a plugin.
   In result WordPress displayed a page “Connection Information” asking for my sftp
   login/pass/host. I’m not sure how is it supposed to work, but I know it’s very
   counter-intuitive and I have no idea how to use it to install a plugin. Any help?
 * Second question. Will there be ability to offer alternative sources of plugins.
   If I want to host my plugins/themes on my project website will I be able to offer
   my users to see them (much like ubuntu ppa apt-get paths?)
 * And third, a bit unrelated. When I’m posting a new blog post there’s an option
   for “pending review”. It sounds like a great option to write a post and give 
   someone ability to review my post before posting it, but currently it seems that
   in this state the post is not visible to anyone but logged in people. Is there
   a way to make pending-review posts available (using direct post url) to anonymous
   readers?
 * Thanks for help

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-installation-5/)
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