[wp-hackers] WPMU Plugin management

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Hi Omry,

While it's true the plugins page itself doesn't have any filtering of
plugins, that page is possibly not the right page to display plugins to
users of WordPress MU. Users who aren't tech savvy, or even know what
software is running on your site aren't going to be interested in the
author information, or arcane configuration of plugins.

Your plugin should probably create a page that uses a list (stored in
sitemeta) of approved plugins, perhaps with a list of plugins stored in
a blog's options table to override the global list. Your plugin should
handle activation and deactivation of plugins. Take a look at
wp-admin/plugins.php for how this is done, it's pretty simple.

To mass-enable plugins, just put the plugin in mu-plugins, or your
plugin will need some function on init that checks for plugins that need
to be activated..

Everything can be done through a plugin, don't use plugins.php at all!

HTH,
Donncha


Omry Yadan wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> what i`d like is to get some approval to the idea from the core team 
> before I go and implement it.
> 
> 
> Callum Macdonald wrote:
>
>>> 1. manipulate the list of plugins displayed to the user.
>>> 2. prevent activation of plugins not in the plugins list.
>>>
>>> I don't see how those things can be done with the current WPMU code, 
>>> but I am willing to add the required filters/hooks needed to perform 
>>> this and submit a patch.
>>> what do you guys think?