Title: Plugin Organizer
Author: Jeff Sterup
Published: <strong>دسامبر 22, 2010</strong>
Last modified: نوامبر 29, 2025

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# Plugin Organizer

 By [Jeff Sterup](https://profiles.wordpress.org/foomagoo/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/plugin-organizer.10.2.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://azb.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://azb.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://azb.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/#installation)
 * [Development](https://azb.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugin-organizer/)

## Description

This plugin allows you to do the following:
 1. Change the order that your plugins
are loaded. 2. Selectively disable plugins by any post type or wordpress managed
URL. 3. Adds grouping to the plugin admin age.

WARNING: Reordering or disabling plugins can have catastrophic affects on your site.
It can cause issues with plugins and can render your site inaccessible.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Settings page example.
 * [[
 * Global plugins page.
 * [[
 * Search plugins page.
 * [[
 * Post type page.
 * [[
 * Group and order plugins page.
 * [[
 * Page edit screen.

## Installation

 1. Extract the downloaded Zip file.
 2. Upload the ‘plugin-organizer’ directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 4. Use the menu item under settings in the WordPress admin called Plugin Organizer
    to get the plugin set up.

IMPORTANT: To enable selective plugin loading you must move the /wp-content/plugins/
plugin-organizer/lib/PluginOrganizerMU.class.php file to /wp-content/mu-plugins 
or wherever your mu-plugins folder is located. If the mu-plugins directory does 
not exist you can create it. The plugin will attempt to create this directory and
move the file itself when activated. Depending on your file permissions it may not
be successful.

Note: If you are having troubles you can view the documentation by going to https://
www.sterup.com/wordpress-plugins/plugin-organizer/documentation/

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-40390/)󠁿

 [Josh Journey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ljosh/) آپریل 10, 2025

Great plugin for re-organizing boot order for plugins along with ability to disable
based on various conditions such as post type, posts, pages, and search view. Thank
you. 🙂

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### 󠀁[The most complicated, least documented plugin I’ve ever seen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-most-complicated-least-documented-plugin-ive-ever-seen/)󠁿

 [synthezoid](https://profiles.wordpress.org/synthezoid/) اوکتوبر 17, 2024

I heard this plugin would allow me to turn off certain plugins on certain pages.
Maybe it does that. I don’t know. I can’t tell. There are no explanations, no instructions,
just six pages with a million settings that don’t clearly explain what they are 
or how you can use them to turn plugins off by page. I looked at the support forum.
Most questions are too technical to understand. Many are unanswered. I would have
given it two stars because it’s free, but then, I tried the documentation link, 
and it lead to a 404 page. There is no excuse for that. If you can’t even provide
a page of documentation explaining how to get any use out of your incredibly complicated,
totally incomprehensible plugin, that’s 0 stars.

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### 󠀁[The Most Important Plugin On WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-most-important-plugin-on-wordpress/)󠁿

 [littleideasbigdreams](https://profiles.wordpress.org/littleideasbigdreams/) سپتامبر
29, 2024

This might just be the most important plugin you can have on your Wordpress website,
especially when running lots of plugins. A masterpiece, and I sincerely hope Jeff
maintains it, Wordpress as a whole will be missing out massively without it. Thank
you for your great work Jeff!

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### 󠀁[Fantastic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-3257/)󠁿

 [kodingschools](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kodingschools/) نوامبر 16, 2023

Fantastic plugin bro Thank you for this masterpiece

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### 󠀁[Works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-updates-security-risk/)󠁿

 [Kaleu_87](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kaleu_87/) اوکتوبر 19, 2023 7 replies

Works

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### 󠀁[Good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-8069/)󠁿

 [led69](https://profiles.wordpress.org/led69/) جولای 15, 2023

I was able to deactivate a deadline reporting plugin script files (pluginFLY) only
on PC and not mobile, so the opposite of what is usually done.It seems to work, 
but you have to find the right setting…

 [ Read all 227 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugin-organizer/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Plugin Organizer” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Jeff Sterup ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/foomagoo/)

“Plugin Organizer” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/plugin-organizer/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Plugin Organizer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/plugin-organizer)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/plugin-organizer/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/plugin-organizer/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/plugin-organizer/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/plugin-organizer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 10.2.4

Fixed possible SQL injection on the plugin search page.

#### 10.2.3

Removed all references to WP Spamshield since the plugin no longer exists and is
no longer a threat to Plugin Organizer users
 Fixed a few typos in the settings 
help text Moved debug messages to the browser console to prevent display problems
Removed custom CSS settings because they are no longer needed with console debug
messages

#### 10.2.2

Fixing plugin update, activation, and deactivation issue that causes plugin order
to be reset.

#### 10.2.1

Replacing missing PO-admn-global.css file that was missing from last update
 Fixing
deprecation warning on global plugins page if no global plugins are set.

#### 10.2

Updating URLs in readme to point to new site.
 Bumped tested version of WordPress

#### 10.1.10

Fixed PHP warning about array offset when the database returns a bad result in MU
plugin

#### 10.1.9

Restored code to use the $_SERVER array for the siteURL value if the right values
are set and added in a fallback to use the wpurl option if they aren’t.

#### 10.1.8

Fixed PHP warnings in tpl/settings.php and lib/PluginOrganizerMU.class.php
 Changed
the base URL to use the setting for the WordPress install instead of a server variable
Fixed ajax message container text being pushed to the side.

#### 10.1.7

Fixed some PHP warnings for unset variables.
 Fixed fatal error when a site doesn’t
have the plugin order saved on a mutlisite install and a plugin is deleted.

#### 10.1.6

Fixed unset variable warnings.

#### 10.1.5

Fixed unset variable warnings.

#### 10.1.4

Fixed check for MU plugin class that throws warning in mu_plugin_notices class.

#### 10.1.3

Changed the way the load order is maintained to use the directory name like the 
WordPress core does instead of the plugin name.

#### 10.1.2

Added check to see if active sites column has been hidden on the plugin admin page
for network sites. If it’s hidden the checks will not be performed.

#### 10.1.1

Fixed a bug with the post type plugins page where the list of disabled plugins was
not refreshed when changing to a different post type.

#### 10.1

Added column to supported post types that indicates whether the post type settings
have been overridden and also added a filter to only see posts of that type that
have overridden those settings.
 Fixed the also affect children and wildcard functionality
so that they can be used together instead of only using one or the other on a plugin
filter. Added an admin alert that tells the user when selective plugin loading gets
disabled due to the version numbers of the standard and MU plugins not matching.
Made the MU plugin only show an alert and bypass selective plugin loading rather
than disabling it in the database when version numbers don’t match. Added a warning
when more than one wildcard is entered in a plugin filter to let the user know that
it is not supported.

#### 10.0.1

Removing images that aren’t used anymore.
 Updating screenshots.

#### 10.0

Created new interface to make managing plugins less confusing and get rid of the
drag and drop interface.
 Cleaned up CSS left over from older versions of the plugin.
Removed the custom CSS for the admin because it was becoming hard to maintain and
can be achieved by adding CSS styles to your theme if needed. Fixed missing nonce
for the front end debug container ajax call.

#### 9.7

Added column to network plugins page to indicate which sites a plugin is active 
on.
 Fixed the recreate permalinks functionality so it will find plugin filters 
that need to be updated with new hashes or to indicate that the site uses a secure
protocol. Added better help text to the recreate permalinks tab on the settings 
page. Changed the add_hooks function to only add admin hooks on the admin pages.
Fixed functionality to find and remove old plugin filters that are tied to posts
that no longer exist.

#### 9.6.4

Updating scripts to use my new domain name for documentation links so plugins like
wordfence don’t alert users.
 Updating readme to reflect compatibility with WP 5.1.

.= 9.6.3 =
 Added list of enabled plugins to the debug message for each page.

#### 9.6.2

Fixed issue with visual editors not loading the Plugin Organizer meta box so post
type plugins were not correctly applied.

#### 9.6.1

Fixed a CSS issue where the jQuery UI styles were being loaded after the PO admin
style so some styles were not being overridden properly.
 Fixed the jQuery UI dialog
header styling.

#### 9.6

Changed from using wp_get_sites to get_sites to remove a deprecated message and 
stop using a deprecated function.
 Added action calls to display the admin notices
and debug messages in the Plugin Organizer meta box when on the post edit screen
to ensure compatibility with the Gutenberg editor.

#### 9.5.1

Added warning for users running Woocommerce and Woocommerce Smart Coupons.
 Added
ability to set the style of the debug messages container so it will work better 
with any site.

#### 9.5

Changed all ajax functions to accept json objects in the response.
 Changed footer
action call for debug messages to use get_footer instead of wp_footer.

#### 9.4

Added debug messages to see how the MU plugin is affecting the page a user is viewing.
Messages can be restricted by role.
 Changed the way settings are sent from the 
settings page to the ajax endpoint.

#### 9.3.6

Fixed a problem with custom post types not applying the custom post type settings
when they are created off of the edit screen.

#### 9.3.5

Fixed colorpicker popup on settings page.
 Added better string sanitization for 
input variables.

#### 9.3.4

Changed the settings page to use Jquery UI Tabs instead of my custom code.
 Cleaned
up some of the CSS.

#### 9.3.3

Added code to prevent the recreate_plugin_order function from saving active plugins
if the array does not contain the same number of plugins as when it was called.

Added a filter call to remove the active_plugins filters before any plugins are 
loaded.

#### 9.3.2

Fixed bug where an error is thrown if the load order has not already been set in
the database.

#### 9.3.1

Moved the function call to maintain the load order to the init function.
 Added 
functionality to insert a newly activated plugin into the load order earlier.

#### 9.3

Added a function to remove the active_plugins and active_sitewide_plugins filters
after plugins are loaded to prevent other plugins from saving a bad list of plugins
to the database.
 Plugins can now be disabled on the update-core and plugins admin
pages without deactivating them. Changed the priority of the active_plugins and 
active_sitewide_plugins filters to 1 so they will load before anything else. Changed
the way new plugins are added to the load order after being activated so they are
closer to where they would be normally and not always added to the front. Fixed 
a bug where the role cookies are not created or deleted on login/logout if Plugin
Organizer has been disabled.

#### 9.2.6

Changed various option names in the database to prevent WP Spamshield from disabling
Plugin Organizer
 Adding a warning about WP Spamshields malicious behavior. Changed
the way roles where a plugin has been disabled as well as plugin members are displayed
in the Plugin Organizer meta box. Fixed a bug in the SQL like statements used by
the plugin search on the PO settings page introduced with a change made in wordpress
4.8.3.

#### 9.2.5

Adding admin notices to warn users of what could happen when using Plugin Organizer.

#### 9.2.4

Removing code that deactivates WP-Spamshield as it is pointless to keep releasing
countermeasures to prevent their malicious code.

#### 9.2.3

Added code to prevent a malicious plugin from disabling Plugin Organizer by deactivating
it at load time.

#### 9.2.2

Fixed a bug with the gettext hook being called mutiple times to change the page 
title on a group view.
 Added code to prevent other plugins from altering posted
data.

#### 9.2.1

Set the tolerance of the droppable elements on the right side of the plugin organizer
meta box to pointer so the drag elements aren’t dropped in the wrong place.

#### 9.2

Added functionality to move multiple plugins while disabling.
 Fixed conflict with
plugins setting the z-index of the ui-dialog popup. Fixed problem with wp_login 
action hook only sending one argument in some circumstances.

#### 9.1.4

Changed the post_type varchar length back to 20 in last version which causied a 
problem with custom post type page. Changed the size to 50 to allow for longer post_types.

#### 9.1.3

Changing database statements to modify post_type and user_role to the new sizes 
for existing installs.

#### 9.1.2

Changed the length of 2 fields in the po_plugins database table. The index on these
fields was causing problems with some collation settings.

#### 9.1.1

Missed 2 files in release 9.1 so the plugin search tool always returned no results.
Releasing the missing file changes.

#### 9.1

Fixed a problem with disabled roles not being displayed on post type page.
 Added
a tool to search the datbase to see where a plugin is disabled.

#### 9.0.6

Fixed problem with post_type column in po_plugins table being limited to 20 characters
and causing an uncaught database error.
 Removed a console.log dbug statement from
PT plugins page.

#### 9.0.5

Fixed SQL error in the find_duplicate_permalinks function.

#### 9.0.4

Fixed php notice from stored post types array not being set on activation.
 Fixed
php notice from HTTP_USER_AGENT not being set on in the server array. Fixed javascript
error from role support help icon that prevented the pop up from working. Put red
and blue icons back for users who haven’t enabled disable by role.

#### 9.0.3

Fixed query in MU plugin for affect children. Removed quotes around column name 
that were causing the query to fail.

#### 9.0.2

Fixed problem with query that selects the base settings for a post in the post metabox.

Fixed a problem where logged in users where being given the logged out user set 
of plugins.

#### Full Changelog

https://www.sterup.com/wordpress-plugins/plugin-organizer/changelog/

## Meta

 *  Version **10.2.4**
 *  Last updated **4 آی‌لار ago**
 *  Active installations **10٫000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  Languages
 * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/), [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/),
   [Dutch (Belgium)](https://nl-be.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/),
   [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/),
   [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/), و [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/plugin-organizer)
 * Tag
 * [plugin organizer](https://azb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/plugin-organizer/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://azb.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  202 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugin-organizer/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  7 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugin-organizer/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  7 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugin-organizer/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jeff Sterup ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/foomagoo/)

## Support

Issues resolved in last two months:

     0 out of 3

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugin-organizer/)

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