I think this will be helpful for you. It has describe everything step by step and there are part 1 & 3 of that tutorial series. Follow them as well. Creating a WordPress Plugin Part 2: Uploading Media and using Web Services
Install plugin remotely
Use activate_plugin() instead: activate_plugin( $plugin, $redirect=””, $network_wide = false, $silent = false ) You need just the first parameter, the same value as in the option. This function will call the necessary actions: if ( ! $silent ) { do_action( ‘activate_plugin’, $plugin, $network_wide ); do_action( ‘activate_’ . $plugin, $network_wide ); } Note: depending on where … Read more
IMHO a better approach would be adding the remote server’s directory as a locally mounted directory and use this as wp-content directory. Doing this on the block/filesystem level means that WordPress won’t notice a thing, since it appears to WordPress as normal local directory. You may want to have a look at sshfs in order … Read more
For cURL, a minimum of 1 second applies, as DNS resolution operates at second-resolution only. See more in wp-includes/class-request.php function request()
Check out Paul Clark’s Uploads by Proxy plugin: For local development: Automatically load images from the production version of wp-content/uploads if they are missing locally.
Is there any plugin I can use for this task? No. But there is a tool you can use. A colleague of mine was facing an identical situation. Multiple authors on one site wanted to cross post from the central, multi-author blog onto their own blogs. The solution was for them to use an external … Read more