Description
Warning! This plugin does not support WordPress Multisite!
Must Use Plugin Handle is a management plugin for your plugins. It allows the admin to set plugins as required, specify their load order and to block updates of plugins that are selected as required for unauthorised users.
Features
- Add administrators as power users
- mark plugins as ‘must use plugins’
- ‘must use plugins’ can only be updated, deactivated or deleted by authorised users
- define the plugin load order by drag and drop
- multilanguage (english, german) – more to come in the future
Requirements
- WordPress 3.5+
- PHP 5.5+
Got a bug or suggestion?
- Support forum
- Documentation
- Contact author (please DO NOT use this form for support requests)
Bundled translations
- En, De aohipa
Have a translation? Contact us
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/must-use-plugin-handle
directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- After activating the plugin it will be copied to the
/wp-content/mu-plugins/must-use-plugin-handle
directory. You can delete the plugin now through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress - Use the ‘Must use plugins’ screen to configure the plugin
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/must-use-plugin-handle
directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- After activating the plugin it will be copied to the
/wp-content/mu-plugins/must-use-plugin-handle
directory. You can delete the plugin now through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress - Use the ‘Must use plugins’ screen to configure the plugin
- Upload the plugin files to the
- I want to add another user as an authorised user. How can I do that?
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You can add additional administrators to the authorised admins, but beware! Every authorised user can control all must use plugins and authorised administrators. Be sure, that you can trust them with this amount of power and responsability.
- One of the plugins depends on another plugin. Both are installed and set as must use, but they don’t work anymore. What went wrong?
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Most likely they are being loaded in the wrong order. You can specify the load order with drag and drop through the ‘Must use plugins’ screen
- How can I deinstall the plugin
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You have to delete it manually through the filesystem for now. An option to delete it through the backend will be added in the future.
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Contributors & Developers
“Must Use Plugins Handle” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.2 – 2017.10.17
- fixed an error with the plugin name detection. Switched from regular expression to get_plugin_data()
1.1 – 2017.04.03
- fixed an error, added the must-use-plugin-handle directory inside the plugins directory to the list of selectable plugins
1.0 – 2016.10.26
- Initial release