thefrosty/wordpress-mu-loader

Loads regular plugins from the plugins directory as must-use plugins, enforcing their activity while maintaining the typical update flow.

1.0.1 2023-01-27 20:11 UTC

Requires

• php: ^7.4 || ^8.0

Suggests

• roots/bedrock-autoloader: Bedrock Autoloader will autoload plugin from the directory when in `mu-plugins/.

GPL-2.0+

• Austin Passy

• wordpress
• muplugin

README

Installation

composer require thefosty/wordpress-mu-loader:^1.0

Loads regular plugins from the plugins' directory as "must-use plugins", enforcing their activity while maintaining the typical update flow. This file will take care of all necessary logic, including preventing activation/deactivation/deletion of those plugins as regular plugins.

Benefits

• Enforce plugins to be active throughout the entire installation.
• Continue receiving automated update notifications.
• Be able to comfortably update those plugins from the WordPress dashboard.
• The plugin activation, deactivation, and uninstallation routines are executed as usual.

Requirements

• WordPress >= 5.0
• PHP >= 7.4

Usage

• You can then pass basenames of the plugins you would like to load as MU plugins to the constructor call in the wp_plugin_mu_loader() function, as an array.
• A plugin basename consists of the plugin directory name, a trailing slash, and the plugin main file name, for example wordpress-seo/wp-seo.php, jetpack/jetpack.php, or woocommerce/woocommerce.php.
• Alternatively, if you don't want to tweak the code of the function itself, you can also access the loader from the outside: Retrieve the instance via wp_plugin_mu_loader() and then call its load_plugin() method, passing a single plugin basename string to it.

Example

wp_plugin_mu_loader()->loadPlugin( 'wordpress-seo/wp-seo.php' );

OR, create a git managed mu-plugin:

<?php declare(strict_types=1);
/**
 * @wordpress-muplugin
 * Plugin Name: WordPress Plugins as Must-use
 * Description: Require regular WordPress plugins as "must-use" plugins.
 * Version: 1.0.0
 * Author: Austin Passy
 * Author URI: https://github.com/thefrosty
 */

namespace TheFrosty;

/**
 * Returns an array of basename formatted plugins to set as "must-use".
 * @return array
 */
function getRequiredPlugins(): array
{
    // Add plugins to the array here...
    return \array_filter([
        'disable-emojis/disable-emojis.php',
        'soil/soil.php',
        'stream/stream.php',
    ]);
}

\add_action('muplugins_loaded', function () {
    $plugins = getRequiredPlugins();
    \array_walk($plugins, function (string $plugin_basename) {
        try {
            if (!\function_exists('wp_plugin_mu_loader') &&
                // You only need the file_exists/require is not using autoloading...
                \file_exists(WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR . '/wordpress-mu-loader/wp-plugin-mu-loader.php')
            ) {
                require_once WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR . '/wordpress-mu-loader/wp-plugin-mu-loader.php';
            }
            \wp_plugin_mu_loader()->loadPlugin($plugin_basename);
        } catch (\InvalidArgumentException | \RuntimeException $exception) {
            // Log something here?
        }
    });
});