Mu Manager – Manage mu-plugins like standard plugins

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Mu Manager – Manage mu-plugins like standard plugins

by Jose Mortellaro

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Description

With Mu Manager you can manage the mu-plugins like the standard plugins.
You can disable, enable, delete, download, and edit mu-plugins as you do with normal plugins.

The mu-plugins are the plugins that load before any standard plugin. In a normal WordPress installation they are located in the folder wp-content/mu-plugins.

Usually, WordPress doesn’t allow you to deactivate the mu-plugins. With Mu Manager you can enable, disable, and delete mu-plugins without the need for FTP.

It’s useful if you need to temporarily deactivate a mu-plugin, or to get rid of some mu-plugins installed by some hosting providers that you don’t need.
Some hosting providers, such as HostGator or Bluehost, might automatically install for instance a must-use plugin that enables the Endurance Page Cache, which you totally don’t need if you use a caching plugin.
With Mu Plugin Manager you can easily get rid of Endurance Page Cache, or whatever mu-plugin that you don’t need.

How to deactivate a mu-plugin

  • Go to the page of Plugins
  • Click on Must-Use
  • Click on Deactivate on the row of the mu-plugin that you want to deactivate

How to enable a previously disabled mu-plugin

  • Go to the page of Plugins
  • Click on Must-Use
  • Click on Activate on the row of the mu-plugin that you want to activate

How to delete a previously disabled mu-plugin

  • Go to the page of Plugins
  • Click on Must-Use
  • Click on Delete on the row of the mu-plugin that you want to delete

How to edit an mu-plugin

  • Go to the page of Plugins
  • Click on Must-Use
  • Click on Edit on the row of the mu-plugin that you want to edit

Edit opens the same Plugin File Editor used by standard plugins (wp-admin/plugin-editor.php).

How to download an mu-plugin

  • Go to the page of Plugins
  • Click on Must-Use
  • Click on Download on the row of the mu-plugin that you want to download

The download is a zip archive. It contains the mu-plugin PHP file and, when present, the folder with the same name.

Help

If you have any issues don’t hesitate to open a thread on the support forum.

Not Working with GoDady Hosting

By Akash Halder (akashdev321) on October 4, 2024

Using GO_Dady Hosting. And Hosting Provide 2 Must Use Plugin. I can’t deactivate them With that Plugin.

Amazing

By sailboats25 on April 30, 2024

A truly simple and amazing plugin! Major kudos to the plugin developer!

Did what I needed it to, without fuss

By emsixteen on March 20, 2024

Migrated a site, but didn’t have shell access to remove a must-use plugin that wasn’t relevant any more. This was able to deactivate it. 🙂

Works as described

By TVoltz on September 4, 2023

Thank you, worked perfectly.

Simply works

By Christian Saborio on December 16, 2022

Fantastic implementation, simply worked, no fuss, no weird setup.
Excelente trabajo! 👏

Makes its easy to delete mu plugins

By alexio101 on October 5, 2022

Thank you for this plugin, saved me a lot of trouble!

Best plugin to disable MU-Plugins

By peter09m on August 17, 2022

Thanks bro ! you saved my life!

0.0.6

*Changed: remove the editor links after an mu-plugin save has finished

0.0.5

*Added: edit mu-plugins with the Plugin File Editor

0.0.4

*Added: download action link on the Must-Use plugins screen

0.0.3

*Fix: MU Plugins page not showing if only no mu-plugins are active

0.0.2

*Added: hash to file extensions
*Fix: PHP warnings

0.0.1

*Initial release