I’m noticing that my bedrock/trellis site has lost the menu option to add a new plugin in the admin area. I fully understand why this is a good thing - I’m managing plugins via composer now. However, just for the moment, on a staging site, I need to add a plugin via admin. Is this still possible? …

DISALLOW_FILE_MODS is set to true in staging and production environments by default. See here: https://github.com/roots/bedrock/blob/master/config/environments/production.php#L7 Changing it to false will allow you to install/update plugins via the WP admin dashboard.

or you could SSH into the server and use WP-CLI to install the plugin from the command line Benefits: don’t need to commit plugins to the repo only to remove them afterwards Caveats: the plugin would need to be reinstalled if a new deployment is ran

Good call @paul_tibbetts - I’ll keep that in mind too. In my case, I’ll sometimes want to give non-technical people the option to try out plugins they’ve heard about, to see if they’ll work nicely on the site. Obviously I won’t let them do this on production, but I could allow it on staging, or may…

How do you prevent the deploy from removing the plugins? I have a client with so many commercial plugins that I have not figured out how to handle yet.

I know this may not be “the Bedrock way” because it decouples the management of plugins/themes/updates from Composer, but for clients where I cannot (or do not) want to maintain active management/control of their site following completion of the project I make the following modifications to bedrock …

Thanks a lot for this, very helpful @gnowland ! It looks like once this is done, we will lose the ability to manage plugins with composer afterwards? I was looking for a way to keep my composer plugins just as is, plus giving the client ability to add plugins by themselves. Something like: Plugins…

@faahim , did you find an answer to your question above? I ask as I am about to move a theme (Thrive Theme Builder) to shared as described by @gnowland

This related answer may help: [image] Allowing Updates on Production Site bedrock Concerning the automated updates, I also think about turning them back on in production. However, I would still use composer and run composer update on dev/staging and test there, too. This …

In case anyone is looking for a solution for this - instead of setting the whole plugin and theme directories as project_shared_children, I instead only did this with the plugins I have to install through the wp dashboard. see example: project_shared_children: - path: "{{ project_public_path }}/{…

[image] arnespremberg: plugins I have to install through the wp dashboard But even those plugins should be installable using composer, as composer can also extract archive files (as zip) into a directory - or put the premium plugin code into a private repository.

Does bedrock/trellis disable the ability to add/install plugins via admin?

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strarsis February 22, 2021, 1:58pm 9

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