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1. heyallanmoreno
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   How can I hide a specific plugin from a specific user name? The thing is we're all admin users, so I don't think user roles are the best approach, because we're all in the same category. Or is there any other reasonable approach to manage sensitive plugins?

2. luckdragon
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   hide it how? from the menu? or from the list of plugins? or both?

3. heyallanmoreno
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Hide it from the plugin list. So they are not aware of its presence and consequently prevent a misconfiguration. Thanks.

4. cubecolour
   ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   It sounds like user roles ARE required. A user set up with the administrator role has "god-mode" status to the site and anything you put in to hide stuff from an administrator can be bypassed by them.

   To put it simply, if you can't trust someone to not mess things up they should not be an administrator.

   Have a look at Justin Tadlock's members plugin to help set your roles & capabilities more appropriately.

5. luckdragon
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   put this in functions.php of your theme, adjust the array to be whatever one/ones you want to hide. NOTE: the values in the array are the path and name of the main file from the plugin.

   function mytest() {
     global $wp_list_table;
     $hidearr = array('hello.php');
     $myplugins = $wp_list_table->items;
     foreach ($myplugins as $key => $val) {
       if (in_array($key,$hidearr) {
         unset($wp_list_table->items[$key]);
       }
     }
   }
   add_action( 'pre_current_active_plugins', 'mytest' )

6. heyallanmoreno
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   @luckdragon: Thanks for answering. I'll try this.

   @cubecolour: I set up my users as admins 'cause they're supposed to be owners of the web site (I'm just the tech guy). I want them to be able to install and edit their own plugins, but not those ones that are critical in technical terms.

7. heyallanmoreno
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   No luck so far -.-

8. luckdragon
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   if you are having problems, mouse over the "Edit" link, it will say like:
   

   http://whatever.com/wp-admin/plugin-editor.php?file=favlinks/favlinks.php

   and
   

   http://whatever.com/wp-admin/plugin-editor.php?file=discography/discography.php

   whatever you see in file= is what you put in the array:

   so if you wanted to exclude both of those you'd do:
   

   $hidearr = array('favlinks/favlinks.php','discography/discography.php');

9. heyallanmoreno
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Thanks, here's what I did but throws "Server Error"

   function mytest() {
     global $wp_list_table;
     $hidearr = array('background-per-page/background-per-page.php');
     $myplugins = $wp_list_table->items;
     foreach ($myplugins as $key => $val) {
       if (in_array($key,$hidearr) {
         unset($wp_list_table->items[$key]);
       }
     }
   }
   add_action( 'pre_current_active_plugins', 'mytest' )

10. luckdragon
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #
    

    probably my fault in the original post

    if (in_array($key,$hidearr) {

    should be:
    

    if (in_array($key,$hidearr)) {

11. bobbingwide
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #
    

    Thanks for this. I am working on some code where I want to move a child plugin out from underneath its parent plugin to become a standalone plugin and was researching what I could do with 'pre_current_active_plugins'. I was going to raise a request to have the action converted into a filter so that I could alter the values of the $plugins array passed into it but since it seems that I can make changes to the $wp_list_table then I'll try this first.

    With regards to the original subject. Is it not just possible to make
    the plugin a Must Use plugin? http://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins

12. luckdragon
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #
    

    this isn't for whether or not a plugin gets used, it's for whether or not other admins have access to the plugin settings and the like via the administration area

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