Disable Plugins allows disabling unneeded plugins on certain urls/ajax/wc-ajax/wp-cli/xml-rpc calls to improve site performance.
This is a must-use plugin (mu-plugin) which shall reside in mu-plugins folder.
Define filters in
wp-content/mu-plugins/filters.json, using wp-content/mu-plugins/disable-plugins/filters.sample.json as a sample.
Filters to have the following structure
[
{
"patterns": [
".*"
],
"locations": [
"frontend"
],
"disabled_plugins": [
"jetpack/jetpack.php",
"tablepress/tablepress.php"
]
},
{
"patterns": [
".*\\/solutions\\/bale-packing\\/bale-packing-system",
".*\\/news\\/to-pack-better-round-bales-vs-square"
],
"locations": [
"frontend"
],
"enabled_plugins": [
"tablepress/tablepress.php"
]
},
{
"patterns": [
".*\\/news\\/.+$"
],
"locations": [
"frontend"
],
"enabled_plugins": [
"jetpack/jetpack.php"
]
},
{
"patterns": [
".*admin\\.php\\?page=(support-queues|bbps_management_dashboard|bbps-stats-dashboard.*)"
],
"locations": [
"backend"
],
"disabled_plugins": [
"woothemes-updater/woothemes-updater.php",
"wp-polls/wp-polls.php"
]
},
{
"patterns": [
"wpv_get_archive_query_results"
],
"locations": [
"ajax"
],
"disabled_plugins": [
"wp-cron-cleaner/wp-cron-cleaner.php",
"wp-polls/wp-polls.php"
]
},
{
"patterns": [
"cron event run kagg_w2f_update_ban"
],
"locations": [
"cli"
],
"disabled_plugins": [
"akismet/akismet.php"
]
},
{
"patterns": [
"wp.getAuthors"
],
"locations": [
"xml-rpc"
],
"disabled_plugins": [
"quform/quform.php"
]
}
]
where patterns is an array of regular expressions to compare with page slug (for frontend filters), ajax or WooCommerce ajax action (for ajax filters), xml-rpc function (for xml-rpc filters) etc.
locations is an array of locations. Allowed locations are frontend, backend, ajax, rest, cli, xml-rpc.
disabled_plugins can contain the list of plugins to disable.
enabled_plugins can contain the list of plugins to leave enabled.
Each disabled/enabled plugin is described by its folder/plugin-file.php string.
In the example above, there are several set of filters: 3 for frontend, 1 for backend, 1 for ajax, 1 for wp-cli and 1 for xml-rpc.
By the first frontend filter, we disable 2 plugins (Jetpack and TablePress) for all urls on the frontend. By the second filter, we enable TablePress plugin for 2 urls on the frontend. By the third filter, we enable Jetpack on some other urls on the frontend.
By the backend filter, we disable 2 plugins (WooThemes Updater and WP Polls) on certain admin pages.
By the ajax filer, we disable 2 plugins (WP Cron Cleaner and WP Polls) during the wpv_get_archive_query_results ajax request.
By the wp-cli filter, we disable Akismet plugin during the execution of the wp-cli command cron event run kagg_w2f_update_ban.
By the xml-rpc filter, we disable plugin QuForm on xml-rpc request with the wp.getAuthors function.
In wp-content/mu-plugins folder:
git clone https://github.com/kagg-design/disable-plugins
cd disable-plugins
composer install --no-dev
cp disable-plugins.php ..
In wp-content/mu-plugins folder:
git clone https://github.com/kagg-design/disable-plugins
cd disable-plugins
composer install
cp disable-plugins.php ..
The WordPress Plugin Disable Plugins is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
A copy of the license is in the root of the plugin’s directory. The file name is LICENSE.