How to install Extension Manager

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The Extension Manager plugin for WordPress gives you more powerful and useful SEO tools, in addition to what The SEO Framework already delivers.

Plugin details

The Extension Manager plugin requires:

  • PHP v7.3 or higher. For security and structural reasons.
  • WordPress v5.5 or higher. For improved AJAX, content editing, and meta support.
  • The SEO Framework v4.2.8 or higher. Otherwise, Extension Manager will ask you to install it.
  • Edge/Chrome 80, Safari 13.1, Firefox 74, better or equivalent for the best admin experience.
  • 64 bits PHP operation for improved performance and advanced option sorting. 32 bits is also supported.

Installation instructions

You can either install the plugin via your WordPress dashboard or via FTP.

Install via WordPress

  1. Download the latest ZIP file from here.
  2. Log in to your WordPress Dashboard.
  3. Go to Plugins > Add New.
  4. Click “Upload Plugin” at the top.
  5. Upload the the-seo-framework-extension-manager.zip file you just downloaded.
  6. Either network-activate this plugin or activate it on a single site.
  7. That’s it! The plugin will guide you from here.

Install via FTP

  1. Download the latest ZIP file from here.
  2. Unzip the ZIP file’s contents to an easily accessible location, like on your desktop.
  3. Connect to your website via FTP.
  4. Browse to [...]/wp-content/plugins/.
  5. Transfer the the-seo-framework-extension-manager folder from the unzipped folder to your server. For best compatibility, you should be able to locate the readme.txt file at [...]/wp-content/plugins/the-seo-framework-extension-manager/readme.txt.
  6. Go to your WordPress plugin dashboard to verify the transfer.
  7. Either network-activate this plugin or activate it on a single site.
  8. That’s it! The plugin will guide you from here.

Automatic update instructions

Your WordPress installation pings our update server (dl.theseoframework.com) periodically.
WordPress notifies you automatically when a new update is available, and you can update it from your WordPress dashboard.

On multisite networks, the plugin needs to be active on the main blog, or be network-activated, to receive updates. We’ve tried to work around this, but the main blog can overwrite the update-information on a subsequent update request.

Note that the plugin needs to be active to send requests to our update servers. So, although we take every conceivable security measurement, it’d be safest to delete the plugin if you’re not using it.

Manual update instructions

If you can’t update Extension Manager via the WordPress updater for any reason, then you must work around this issue manually. Either, you must override the files via FTP manually as per the Install via PHP instructions above, or use the WordPress interface per instructions below.

Since WordPress v5.5, you can update plugins by simply following the instructions on installing the plugin. At step 5, WordPress will ask if you wish to overwrite the plugin’s contents.

For earlier versions of WordPress, you must deactivate and delete the plugin, and then install the plugin again via WordPress. Deactivating or deleting the plugin will not delete any of its settings, so you can continue where you left off after reinstalling.

The plugin fails to load correctly

If the plugin doesn’t load correctly and you’ll need to update it manually, we recommend deleting the plugin and then follow your preferred installation method above. No settings will be lost in this process.