Title: Centralised Plugin Folder
Last modified: June 12, 2018

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# Centralised Plugin Folder

 *  [Remon de Vries](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemodesign/)
 * (@lemodesign)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centralised-plugin-folder/)
 * I’m not sure if this is the right place, but I have been updating my workflow
   for local wp-development and am really enjoying “Local by FLywheel” its a easy
   to use app that uses Vagrant or Docker (I’m not sure) to create websites on your
   local system.
 * I am wondering if anyone ever have figured out a way to Centralise a plugin folder
   for WordPress. If this is even possible without hacking the core.
 * I would think that is a very powerful feature for people to develop large number
   of WordPress websites. You would be able to direct WordPress to a large private
   repo of plugins and remove the plugins folder (or keep it empty) from the WordPress
   installation. This way you can run 50 WordPress installs all without having to
   duplicate on your local system the same plugins over and over again.
 * I hope I’m making myself clear but if not feel free to ask for clarification.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centralised-plugin-folder/#post-10392734)
 * This is [multi-site wordpres](https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network)s.
   You’d have to decide whether the downside of untangling things when you want 
   to separate a site is worth the disk space.
 *  Thread Starter [Remon de Vries](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemodesign/)
 * (@lemodesign)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centralised-plugin-folder/#post-10392744)
 * [@sterndata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) thanks for the quick
   responds, I do run versions of WordPress multisite . But running this on a local
   system can quickly become very slow when you have a large network.
 * Thats why I wonder if its possible to make WordPress look to a remote location
   in order to load plugins.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centralised-plugin-folder/#post-10392756)
 * That would be very slow, as plugins load on each page load, so you’d be adding
   a lot of latency to your site. And if anything happened to that server, all your
   sites are down.
 *  Thread Starter [Remon de Vries](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemodesign/)
 * (@lemodesign)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centralised-plugin-folder/#post-10392891)
 * Thats why it should only be useful for a local installation. It is not for staging/
   production just to streamline a development workflow.
 * But its not possible to setup a installation of WordPress with a custom route
   to a plugin folder without hacking the WordPress core?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centralised-plugin-folder/#post-10393083)
 * You could manually change wp-content/plugins to be a link to a different directory,
   thought any plugin that writes site-specific stuff to it will wind up overwriting
   stuff from another site. I don’t think that your idea is advisable.
 *  [jonasrafael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonasrafael/)
 * (@jonasrafael)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centralised-plugin-folder/#post-10468108)
 * I think is not possible because many plugins writing data on files and just percent
   working entire with the database. And have another questions like the cache folders,
   json maybe be crash this idea.
 * Let me now if i’m wrong.

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