WordPress MU

Hi Everyone,

How do you enable specific plugins and widgets (we created) automatically. We would like for users to create their own blogs with our plugins/widgets enabled automatically. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

zan

Put them in mu-plugins. Anything plugin in there is activated across all blogs. Plugins in sub directories don't work though. But you can usually put them like this:

wp-content/mu-plugins/pluginsubdir
wp-content/mu-plugins/plugin.php

Or put it in wp-content/plugins and use Plugin Commander to active it across all blogs and new blogs.

Some plugins require some modifications to make them work this way. wp-shortstats is the first one that comes to mind. Please search the forums for specifics. Testing each plugin is a plus before releasing them onto your masses.

Thanx for this. I was really lookng for a solution to auto-activate plugins. Great.

Plugin Commander will do the auto-activation, but if you want an automatically activated plugin to have certain settings different from the defaults, you will either need to modify the plugin or build a separate plugin having this framework:

function blog_defaults( $blog_id )  {  

// the following examples set core WPMU options
add_option('blogdescription', "Yet another My Site blog");
add_option('permalink_structure',"/%post_id%/");
add_option('posts_per_page','25');
add_option('template', 'mytheme');
add_option('stylesheet', 'mytheme');
add_option('current_theme', 'MyTheme');

// the following examples set plugin options
add_option("wpcms_post_control_revisions","n");
add_option("wpcms_post_control_autosave","n");

return;
}

add_action('populate_options', 'blog_defaults');

There are existing plugins that set core WPMU options but none to my knowledge that set plugin options.