Coding sort order and settings

  • Deny Dias

    (@denydias)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Jeff Sterup,

    First things first: thank you very much for this beautiful piece of code. PO is something really useful for the ones who cares about user experience, resource usage and performance.

    With the help of others, we’re developing a whole new WordPress powered website to this small startup of mine. In that effort we have set different environments for development, staging and production. These environments are connected through a continuous integration process, so the changes in dev only goes to production if tests goes fine in staging.

    In that process, we sometimes need to destroy the development environment and start over. This is when something annoying comes to PO: on every new environment, we have to manually set the plugins order in Group And Order Plugins page. This is quite tedious.

    I wonder if we could automate that. If yes, than that code goes under VCS so other developers just pull, run and bang! Plugins are in the order they should be. The same would be nice for the PO settings.

    By digging into PO’s code and DB I found that the plugin order is stored in wp_options.option_name.PO_plugin_order. However, by editing its content by hand do not change the order in the page, so I think that there must be something bit of data to change so this could work.

    Thank you for any piece of advice on this, although it’s not related at all with PO’s main functionality.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/

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  • Plugin Author Jeff Sterup

    (@foomagoo)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Copying that option to the new table should reorder your plugins if you go to the Group And Order plugins page. Plugin Organizer changes the order of the array that wordpress uses to load your plugins. It is stored in wp_options.option_name.active_plugins. wp_options.option_name.PO_plugin_order is used to keep the order in case something else changes it. I just tested this and it works. If it isn’t working for you you can try copying both of those options. If there are plugins active on the test site that are not active on the live site, copying the active_plugins option to the live site will activate them. Same goes for inactive plugins. It will deactivate any plugins that aren’t active on the test site.

    Thread Starter Deny Dias

    (@denydias)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Really, Jeff! Now that’s weird! I tried the same you did more than once and it doesn’t worked for me. I’m gonna try that again when they appear out of order and let you know here the results.

    Thank you for the quick reply.

    Thread Starter Deny Dias

    (@denydias)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Jeff,

    Just to let you know that plugin reordering via database works only when changing wp_options.option_name.active_plugins. If one change wp_options.option_name.PO_plugin_order only, the Group And Order plugins page will not reflect the desired ordering.

    Maybe PO is looking for the ordering from wp_options.option_name.active_plugins only and ignoring what is set at wp_options.option_name.PO_plugin_order?

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