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Add API for additional required plugins

September 7, 2018 · 15:49 · Dora D.
Description

If a theme / plugin requires / depends on another plugin, show a note to allow/deny during install.

Maybe include a way to preset options/data for the additional plugin, e.g. if CF7 is required, auto-install it (if "allow" is selected) and provide/install custom premade contact-forms.

Planned Wade Striebel

Planned for V2.

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Request: Add feature
Discussion
James Nylen
· September 7, 2018 · 21:54
· edited

We'll need to implement this before we can remove basically any feature that plugins may depend on. For example: https://vote.classicpress.net/posts/4/remove-xml-rpc-specification

It's also a widely-requested feature from WP plugin developers who want to package utility code into a framework plugin.

Fabian Wolf
· September 9, 2018 · 14:40

Essentially: Bake TGMPA into core.
=> http://tgmpluginactivation.com/

James Nylen
· September 11, 2018 · 19:52

Or, another option that Pieter pointed out in Slack: https://github.com/afragen/wp-dependency-installer

Or we could come up with a way to use composer for this.

James Nylen
· October 3, 2018 · 04:43

An approach using WP-style plugin metadata is in progress at https://github.com/invisnet/ClassicPress/tree/v2.