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Provide only certain selected plugins to member blogs?

  • @peterverkooijen

    Participant

    15 years ago

    Is there a way to provide only certain selected plugins to member blogs?

    I think at the moment it’s all or nothing. It would add a lot of functionality and solve a lot of problems if admin could select which plugins to make available to members, ideally with the user interfaces of those plugins integrated in member’s account management on the front end.

    Would it be possible to write a plugin for this? Any suggestions where to start? Could it be part of the Buddypress core?

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  • @r-a-y

    Keymaster

    15 years ago

    Definitely not BP core, since blogging is all WPMU.

    You might want to look into modifying WPMU Plugin Manager:

    http://wpmudev.org/project/wpmu-plugin-manager

    I did mention the Supporter plugin from the previous thread, but you have to pay to get it:

    http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/supporter

    @xevo

    Participant

    15 years ago

    http://firestats.cc/wiki/WPMUPluginCommander

    @r-a-y

    Keymaster

    15 years ago

    @Xevo:

    That’s an older version of the plugin.

    WPMU Plugin Manager picks up the pieces where Plugin Commander left off.

    @andrea_r

    Participant

    15 years ago

    Plugin Manager is the one you want.

    @peterverkooijen

    Participant

    15 years ago

    Thanks. I’ll try that plugin. It doesn’t look very solid though…

    Definitely not BP core, since blogging is all WPMU.

    Would there be a way to make plugin settings show up somewhere on member pages? Perhaps under ‘settings’? Or even just links to the full plugin settings in the admin back end?

    Can you use the code in plugins that add settings to the admin area to make them show up on the front end somewhere?

    These questions are also related to something I’ll be working on here…

    @r-a-y

    Keymaster

    15 years ago

    Would there be a way to make plugin settings show up somewhere on member pages?

    Yes, you can create a WP plugin with a settings page, then place that plugin in /wp-content/mu-plugins/ so it shows up on all WPMU blogs in the admin area.

    EDIT: after re-reading this, you probably meant as a BuddyPress member settings page right? If so, don’t read the rest of this post!

    Read up on how to create a settings page or use a WP plugin framework such as the one created by scribu:

    https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scb-framework/

    For how to use options in the front end, you would use the get_option() function:

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_option

    That should get you started.

    @peterverkooijen

    Participant

    15 years ago

    I meant, take plugin settings out of the admin area back end and make them available on the members account settings on the front end.

    Some plugin functionality could be very useful to members, like adding an RSS feed via FeedWordpress, but you can’t expect all members to be web savvy enough to find their way in the WordPress backend.

    BTW, the title of this topic should probably have been “Provide only certain selected plugins to members?”

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