[wp-testers] de-/activate Some Plugins at once

[Robert Deaton]

I think that the consequences that could result from this outweigh the
good though, in this case. Plugins expect activation and deactivation
hooks to be available to them. Through these hooks, the plugins have
the possiblity of creating pages that only show on the initial install
or on deactivate. If there's the possibility that multiple plugins are
enabled or disabled at the same time, we would see some plugins
die()ing out before the other plugins could run their hooks, leaving
cruft in the database or not installing/setting options for other
plugins.

On 11/20/05, Les Bessant <les at lcb.me.uk> wrote:
>
> I think it would improve the consistency of the user interface a little. Not
> something I'd need to use frequently, but it would be logical.
>
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> Les Bessant les at lcb.me.uk
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> [mailto:wp-testers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf
> Of Mike Kelly
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> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] de-/activate Some Plugins at once
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>
> That would indeed make it a lot easier, especially for testing purposes, and
> I'm sure its a functionality that wouldn't be to hard to build in.
>
> The feature would be nice, but I don't think it would be that useful, as I
> know that I rarely deactivate or activate multiple plug ins.
> Still, no objections to it.
> -Mike
>
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> On 11/20/05, Karl Karzelek <karl at karzelek.com> wrote:
> > For testing purpose I had to activate and to deactive many of plugins
> today.
> > But I find it time consuming to click on each plugin and than wait until
> it's
> > activated (ok, the new plugin manager in 2.0 makes it faster, but
> > nonetheless) until I can de-/activate the next one. Why can't it be done
> like
> > in the link manager with the checkboxes? So I could check some plugins at
> > once and than activate or deactivate them all at once.
> >
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