I've noticed that if I take a plugin, let's call it "wordpress on steroids", and I place other plugins (the raw files) into the "wordpress on steroids" folder, providing that there are no files with the same name, I can effectively upload multiple plugins with one single install.
However, there are problems with this approach...
1) Already mentioned above, filename conflicts
2) When you delete any plugin that was installed in this manner,
it deletes them all.
I would much rather find some way to group the plugin folders together and upload them all at once.
Has anyone been able to do this, or could suggest a way to do it, perhaps via script in the main plugin?
For example, on plugin install, the script would extract all the additional zipped folders in the main plugin folder and install them each as a separate plugin. This would be an ideal solution perhaps as it overcomes both of the problems mentioned above.