(1) Go to Plugin Organizer –> Settings and enable the two options below:
(*) Selective Plugin Loading
(*) Admin Areas:
(2) Go to Plugin Organizer –> Plugin Filters and create a new filter. Fill in the NAME (e.g.”Admin Area Only”), the PERMALINK (“http://www.yoursite.com.br/wp-admin”), check the “Also Affect Children” checkbox and, as last step, enable/disable the plugins you want/don’t want on the admin pages by toggling the settings on the plugin list at the bottom of the page.
This filter will be applicable to ALL your admin pages; it will override the Global Plugins list in the case of the admin pages. If you later need to change a disabled (via PO) plugin to tweak its settings in the admin area, you will need to reedit this filter; just turn the plugin back on temporarily, do what you need and then turn it off again.
This filter can be used to speed up your admin area considerably.
best regards,
Giovanni
Excellent !! thanks Giovanni much appreciated … and for the quick response 🙂
Thanks again Jeff for a brilliant plugin !!
I have a related question regarding Admin configuration. If I keep the settings for Admin Areas as disabled, can I still create a plugin filter which turns off some plugins in the admin area? In other words, I want the default setting to be for all plugins to be enabled in the admin areas but wish to disable some of them. Thanks
If you have the admin setting disabled the plugin filters won’t affect any page that starts with http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/. If you just want to affect the admin areas then create a plugin filter with the permalink set to http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ and check the also affect children checkbox.
Okay so to be clear, a plugin filter won’t work if the admin setting is disabled. Thanks
Another thing is that any admin filter would still have settings for global and mobile. How does that work?
Global doesn’t affect the admin either if that option is disabled.
No I mean if the option is enabled. In the settings for a filter, there are still two columns of settings, Global and Mobile, but that doesn’t apply to admin. See what I mean?
The first column is not your global plugins. Those are the plugins loaded for a standard browser. Global plugins are set on the global plugins page. The 2 columns of plugins are something different than the admin area settings. You can have a plugin filter for the admin area that loads different plugins for a mobile browser and a standard browser.
Ok thanks. This plugin continues to blow my mind. Sometimes it’s difficult to wrap ones’ head around the capabilities.
