[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #46480: Segregating Plugins from Plugin Addons

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#46480: Segregating Plugins from Plugin Addons
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 Reporter:  samjco                             |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                        |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                             |  Milestone:  Awaiting
                                               |  Review
Component:  Plugins                            |    Version:  5.1
 Severity:  normal                             |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui, accessibility, administration  |
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 This will allow better organization in the plugin directory of admin.
 Perhaps a +/- to open up the Main Plugin to show it's add-ons. For
 example:

 ( - ) **Advanced Custom Fields** ''(2)''
 --- ACF Native field
 --- ACF Table field
 ( +) **WooCommerce** ''(10)''
 ( - ) **Gravity Forms** ''(1)''
 --- Gravity Froms Addon
 **Hello Dolly**

 This would drastically clean up/ or give "the appearance of"  with the
 plugins looking organized and more bearable to look at and search through.

 This can be a simple addition that Plugin developer would make in their
 definition of a Plugin that requires the main plugin. For example:

 {{{#!php
 <?php
 /**
  * Plugin Name: My Awesome ACF addon
  * Addon Of: advanced-custom-fields // <--The repo slug of the Main plugin
  */
 }}}

 This can also lead to the core checking to see if the main plugin is
 installed, to fire off a notification to the user: ''"Advanced Custom
 Field is not installed"''

 I believe this is something that should be considered and added to core
 and give as a standard to plugin addon developers.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/46480>
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