Download any plugin or theme as a ZIP, straight from wp-admin.
One click on any plugin row, you get a ZIP. One click on the Bulk button, you get every plugin and theme zipped together. Set a schedule and the archive rebuilds itself every week. No FTP client, no hosting login, no shell. $39.99/yr or $119 once.
{slug}-v{version}.zip · auto-stampany installed themeall plugins + themesWordPress lets you install, activate, and update plugins from inside the dashboard. The one thing it does not let you do, ever, is download the ZIP of a plugin you already have. The moment you need a copy, you are pushed to FTP, cPanel, or a backup tool that does ten things instead of one.
Native WordPress has no download action on any plugin or theme row. The moment you want a ZIP of something already installed, you have to open FTP, navigate wp-content, and compress the folder by hand.
Managed WordPress hosts often hide FTP, restrict cPanel, and put SSH behind a paid tier. The admin login is the only door open. Without an in-dashboard download, you are stuck.
Backup plugins are the right tool for disaster recovery, the wrong tool for "let me grab WooCommerce v10.7 before the auto-update lands tomorrow." You wait, you babysit, you unzip a 1 GB archive to extract one folder.
The plugin adds one button where you'd expect it - the Plugins page, the Themes page, and the bulk-actions dropdown. Then it adds the things WordPress should have shipped with: version-stamped filenames, scheduled archives, custom paths, and a ZIP library fallback for hosts where ZipArchive is missing.
Sits next to "Activate · Edit · Delete" in the row actions. Customize the link text, color, and font weight from the settings page.
The bulk-actions dropdown gets a "Download" entry. Tick the rows you want, hit Apply, get a single ZIP.
Each schedule saves to its own folder, stamps the filename with the date, and (optionally) keeps the last N archives. The rest auto-delete.
Each surface has its own toggle in settings. Hide the button from the Plugins list and keep only the bulk action, if that's the workflow you want.
When the host's PHP zip extension is disabled, the plugin still works. No support ticket, no waiting on hosting.
Any plugin or theme in wp-content. No allow-list, no vendor sniffing. If WordPress installed it, the plugin can zip it.
Upload the .zip from Plugins → Add New, then activate. The Download link shows up on every plugin and theme row immediately.
Open Plugins or Themes. Each row now has a Download action next to Edit and Delete. Click it, the browser saves a versioned ZIP.
Tick the boxes you want, pick "Download" from the bulk-actions dropdown, hit Apply. A single ZIP arrives with each plugin folder inside.
Daily, weekly, or monthly. The plugin builds the archive on cron, stamps the filename with the date, and prunes the oldest run when the keep-N cap is hit.
WordPress native · none |
Download Plugin (Metagauss) freemium · pro pricing not specified |
UpdraftPlus from $70/yr · no lifetime |
WPFactory $39.99/yr · $119 once |
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| core: get a ZIP of an installed plugin | ||||
| One-click download from Plugins page | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| One-click download from Themes page | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Bulk download all plugins in one ZIP | ✕ | ✓ | part of full backup | ✓ |
| Bulk download all themes in one ZIP | ✕ | not specified | part of full backup | ✓ |
| Works without FTP / cPanel / SSH | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| filenames & archives | ||||
| Append version number to filename | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Custom file-naming pattern (slug, version, date) | ✕ | ✕ | backup-set names only | ✓ |
| Include or exclude main plugin directory toggle | - | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Pick ZIP library: ZipArchive or PclZip fallback | - | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| automation | ||||
| Scheduled downloads (daily / weekly / monthly) | ✕ | not specified | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom server save path for scheduled runs | ✕ | not specified | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-delete old archives (keep last N) | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WordPress Multisite / Network compatibility | - | not specified | ✓ | ✓ |
| customization & integration | ||||
| Customize Download link text, color, font weight | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Frontend shortcode to render a download button | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Lightweight: only runs when admin triggers it | - | ✓ | runs even when idle | ✓ |
| pricing & ownership | ||||
| Free version on .org | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lifetime tier | - | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ $119 unlimited sites |
| Top tier (top vendor plan) | - | not specified | $399/yr unlimited sites | ✓ $119 unlimited sites |
| 10-year cost | $0 | not specified | $3,990 | $119 |
| 50+ plugins (All Access) | - | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ $499 |
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A small agency is rebuilding a client site on a new host. The old staging server runs a mix of bought, free, and custom-built plugins; not all of them have current license downloads. With this plugin, every plugin and theme on staging is exported as ZIP in one bulk run, then dragged into the new site's Plugins → Add New.
What used to be an FTP-and-tar shell session became 3 clicks. The custom in-house plugin came across with the same version number it had on staging.
A WooCommerce store owner has been burned by an extension update before. Now, before any auto-update window, the schedule runs at 03:00 the night before and saves a versioned ZIP of every plugin to /wp-content/uploads/plugin-archive/. If an update breaks the store at 09:00, the rollback is one upload away.
When a payment-gateway plugin broke after a release, the prior-version ZIP was already sitting in the archive folder. Restore took 90 seconds instead of opening a support ticket.
A freelance developer is wrapping a build. The client asked for the source of every custom plugin alongside the finished site. With one bulk run filtered to in-house plugin slugs, all custom code goes into a single ZIP, properly versioned, with no FTP credentials swapped over email.
No FTP credentials shared. No half-hour digging through wp-content. The plugin took 30 seconds, the handoff email took the other minute.
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Every WPFactory plugin ships with the same eight guarantees. Here's what running this one looks like in practice.
Hooks the Plugins / Themes list-table actions only. Zero frontend impact. No extra database tables. Runs only when an admin clicks Download or when the scheduled cron fires.
Every setting documented: filename patterns, ZIP library choice, include-main-directory toggle, schedule windows, custom save paths, shortcode usage. The docs site walks you through each one.
30,000+ sites have downloaded this. Real bug reports become point releases. Hosts with quirky filesystems (locked uploads dir, missing zip ext) have all been hit and fixed.
14-day refund on yearly and lifetime, 30 days on All Access. No questions asked. If the workflow doesn't fit, support helps. If it still doesn't fit, you walk away whole.
All Access is $499 once for all 50+ plugins, lifetime, unlimited sites, and it includes every plugin we release later. Three lifetime licenses at $199 already cost $597, so the bundle usually wins by your third plugin.
v2.0.0 shipped recently. Tested against the latest WordPress and PHP 8.3 within days of every release. Backwards-compatible to PHP 5.0 and WordPress 3.1, so legacy sites still run it.
Doesn't interfere with backup tools, security plugins, or page builders. Multisite-ready. WP-CLI command included. Shortcode lets you expose a download from the frontend if needed.
If you can install a plugin, you can use this. Default settings work. Power users get filename patterns, ZIP library selection, custom paths, and schedules behind one settings tab.
This is what you see inside WordPress once the plugin is activated.
14-day refund on yearly and lifetime, 30 days on All Access. Lifetime pays for itself by year 3. All Access pays for itself by the 5th plugin you'd ever use. Yearly auto-renew can be turned off in your account.
Buy once. Owns itself by year 3. Use on every site you own.
This plugin + 49 others, lifetime updates, unlimited sites - for $300 more than Lifetime alone.
my-plugin-v1.2.3.zip instead of my-plugin.zip. Built-in across free and Pro.One-click downloads on every plugin and theme. Bulk export of all of them. Scheduled archives. Version-stamped filenames. ZipArchive or PclZip fallback. Multisite-ready. 30,000+ sites already running it. 14-day refund if it's not for you.
30,000+ stores · 4.8★ across 30 reviews · WordPress.org plugin · 14-day refund