WordPress MU

I would like to hide the "Plugins" section from users. I already use the Plugin Manager and Plugin Commander and would like to be able to prevent users switchting plugins on and off.

I guess the easiest method of doing this is just by hiding the menu point in the admin area (and maybe including a permissions check in the plugin.php file that only admins can access the page).

Has anyone an idea how to do this?

Ok.. ok I found a way to do this. Comment the lines 410 and 411 of your wp-admin/includes/mu.php out

/* if( $menu_perms[ 'plugins' ] == 1 )
$menu[35] = array(__('Plugins'), 'activate_plugins', 'plugins.php');*/

Any other suggestions how to do this more elegant are appreciated.

Or go to the Site admin menu, click on Options.
Scroll down to the bottom and uncheck the Enabled box next to the Plugins option.

but I thought with plugin commander yo ucoudl auto activate a plugin, and do not give user control over it, combined with disabling the "normal" plugins menu that is the solution?

No cafespain if I do this I can't use plugins or enable them individually for single blogs.

@Ovidiu

That's right. That's how I do it.

@deltakid: Yes you can. You switch on the plugins menu - activate the plugin for the users blog and switch off the plugins menu. Takes less than 30 seconds. But then I only have a few sites so it isn't much hassle for me.

deltakid,

I use an mu-plugin to reshape the menu for all blogs/users.

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=8482

yes cafespain that works as well. that was how i did it initially. but now i get emails when a user has filled out a certain form and just click a link to activate the appropriate plugin for his blog. that's easier for me.

and thanks dsader that's perfect! works great and a very elegant solution much appreciated!

http://mahalkita.nanogeex.com/wplite/

@dsader

Your solution works excellent. Thanks a lot. But what about hiding Advanced Options (Excerpt, Trackbacks,...)?

Boonika, look closely at the edit-form-advanced.php for the divs with id, and add style to the header to hide the div. Add something like this to an mu-plugin:

<?php function ds_hide_post_form () {
?>
<style>
#postcustom	{
	display: none;
}
#pagepostcustom	{
	display: none;
}
#postexcerpt	{
	display: none;
}
#trackbacksdiv {
	display: none;
}
</style>
<?php }
add_action( 'admin_head', 'ds_hide_post_form' );
?>

That's what I did. Searched inside edit-form-advanced.php and found those lines of code but didn't know how to write a plugin to disable those functions. Thanks a lot for this simple solution.

@dsader

Now this is strange. I swear that your 'redirect' plugin yesterday worked just fine. Now, when I enter direct URL, for example; http://blog1.example.com/wp-admin/post-new.php redirect doesn't work which means that I'm able to visit actual URL.

Also, the solution you provided in your last post works GRAET but only for Write/Post and not for Write/Page Advanced Options. They are still displayed.

I forgot to say something that might be important. I'm using those plugins as Plugins, not MU-Plugins. I've added header so I can activate them inside the administration.

Anyway, once again, thanks for your help.

@dsader - 'redirect' problem solved

Sorry, looks like it was my lack of knowledge. I just pasted your code which has only themes.php included. That's why redirect didn't work for other pages.

@dsader - 'hide Wrie/Page options' problem solved

Thanks

Boonika,
Look at the edit-page-form.php to modify display of the page editor.

The divs ids change names depending on the version.

@dsader

Yes that's what I already did. Right now I'm struggling with hiding Dashboard. Actually, I'm trying to apply above mentioned 'redirect' function. All other menus (ones that I don't need) are hidden and when user enters hidden menu URL he gets redirected to page-new.php.

Maybe this will do the 'hide Dashboard' trick:
http://www.deepwave.net/articles/hide_dashboard/

add to a mu-plugin

function ds_hide_dash() {
wp_redirect('post-new.php');
		exit();
	}
add_action( 'wp_dashboard_setup','ds_hide_dash' );

Thanks dsader. You've helped me a lot. I think that you should collect all those codes and create a plugin called 'Dsader Admin Options' or something like that... just a thought. Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

When I think about it now, I couldn't agree with you more. More people should KISS:)

Yes, a _dilute_koolaid.php is in order, with a bit of this for the crafty...