[wp-hackers] How to rename plugins in the plugin repository?

[Brian Layman]

> Instead, I'd recommend using something like define('BASE_URL', dirname(__FILE__)
> ); to set the current directory name as a constant.  Then you can reference
> BASE_URL elsewhere in your script as necessary.

The related error I most often see is that a plugin hard codes that it runs out of the plugins directory, and that isn't always the case.

For example, WPMU ran plugins out of the mu-plugins directory.  On installs I've worked with, certain plugins run out of another subdirectory in order to allow custom activation/deactivation that is outside the blog administrator's control.  The plugins that hardcode their location have to be altered to allow a generic location.
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