[wp-edu] Removing Plugins

[Jeff VanDrimmelen]

Hey All, 

The wpmu-plugin-stats works great up to about 2000 sites and then it starts timing out because of the way it was built. :(  

Internally we have built our own plugin (which we will release on wordpress.org when we get it totally finished).  We're calling it the "Network Manager" plugin.  It takes between 30 seconds and 2 minutes to pull up stats for all 4500 of our sites on our network.  What is really nice though is that it has some nice javascript that allows you to search by plugin/theme and have the list instantly sort.  You network activate it and then it shows up under Sites - Network Information.  

I can send you a copy with the caveat that it is not done.  We are planning on adding a Contact form to email admins of a specific theme or plugin, add some statistical reporting pages, and some admin message functions that will show dashboard. messages on sites that use said plugin/theme.  

But even as is it has allowed us to start retiring plugins on our network for newer ones, retiring old themes, etc.  

Let me know if you'd like a copy and I'll send it to you.  

~Jeff
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



On Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 12:29 PM Thursday, April11, Parker, Joshua wrote:

> Thats an excellent plugin. I forgot all about it. 
> 
> --
> Joshua Parker
> WordPress in Education: http://wpined.com/ (http://wpined.com)
> 
> 
> On Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Grogan, David wrote:
> 
> > This is a fantastic plugin:
> >  
> > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-plugin-stats/
> >  
> > Will list the sites that use each plugin you have installed. 
> >  
> > David
> >  
> > From: wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com (mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com) [mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Skriloff, Nicholas
> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:26 AM
> > To: wp-edu at lists.automattic.com (mailto:wp-edu at lists.automattic.com)
> > Subject: [wp-edu] Removing Plugins 
> >  
> > Here at Darden Business School we have our faculty blogs: http://blogs.darden.virginia.edu/ .  Overtime some plugins that were once used are no longer used.  We have a staging environment that is copy of our production environment.  In our staging environment we want to run a process like
> > 1)      Identify plugin to remove
> > 2)      Run a test (like a selenium test) against all blogs
> > 3)      Remove said pluging
> > 4)      Run test again 
> > 5)      If nothing broke, the add it to the list of plugins that can be removed from production. 
> >  
> > How have any of you all done this? 
> >  
> > Sincerely,
> > Nick Skriloff , ME , MCP, SCJP
> > Information Technology Specialist
> > Darden Information Services
> > Voice 434 243 5025  Fax 434 243 2279
> > skriloffn at darden.virginia.edu (mailto:skriloffn at darden.virginia.edu)
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> > 
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