Installs and activates one of the companion Fluent plugins from the add-on catalogue, in the background.

Only slugs present in the add-on catalogue are accepted. Repository plugins are fetched from WordPress.org; FluentCommunity Chat and FluentPlayer are installed through their own hooks and require the Pro plugin.

Endpoint

• Method: POST

• Path: /settings/install_plugin

• Edition: Core

• Controller: SettingController@installPlugin

• Route source: fluent-community/app/Http/Routes/api.php:158

• Controller source: fluent-community/app/Http/Controllers/SettingController.php

• Requires the WordPress install_plugins capability in addition to the community-admin permission.

• Writes to the plugins directory and activates code on the site.

Reconstructed sample

This endpoint belongs to a module that is not active on the reference install (or needs a file upload), so the payload below was reconstructed by reading the controller rather than recorded. Field names and types follow the source; values are illustrative.

POST Install Plugin

POST

/settings/install_plugin

Installs and activates one of the companion Fluent plugins from the add-on catalogue, in the background.

Controller: SettingController@installPlugin
Route source: fluent-community/app/Http/Routes/api.php:158

Authorizations

ApplicationPasswords

WordPress Application Passwords — use Basic auth with username:application_password.

Type

API Key (header: Authorization)

Request Body

application/json

{

  

"plugin": "string"

}

Responses

Successful response

Content-Type

application/json

{

  

"message": "string",

  

"is_installed": true

}

POST

/settings/install_plugin

Playground

Authorization

ApplicationPasswords

Body

Samples

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