I just found a quick tip on the Installatron forums.

By default Installatron disables all WordPress plugins when doing an upgrade. This is due to the WordPress best practices for upgrading the version of their system. When you have a lot of WordPress installs to go through this is a big pain because it usually breaks the site.

According to this post, you disable the disabling of the plugins by creating a file named .dont_disable_plugins in the directory that wordpress is installed to.

Via command line it is as simple as this:

touch /path/to/wordpress/.dont_disable_plugins

Execute that command on the command line (or upload an empty file via FTP/SCP) and the plugins will remain enabled. There is also an option in the installatron settings to enable this file creation upon install.

Note that if you have a plugin that is not compatible with a new version of WordPress, it may break your install!

3 comments
  1. Pingback: Dave Drager
  2. Pingback: Julianna Yau

Comments are closed.

You May Also Like

Easy Search and Replace in Multiple Files on Linux Command Line

I recently came across a typo that existed in a bunch of…

What a Resilver Looks Like in ZFS (and a Bug and/or Feature)

At home I have an (admittedly small) ZFS array set up to experiment with this neat newish raid technology. I think it has been around long enough that it can be used in production, but I’m still getting used to the little bugs/features, and here is one that I just found. After figuring out that I had 2 out of 3 of my 1TB Seagate Barracuda hard drives fail, I had to give the array up for a loss and test out my backup strategy. Fortunately it worked and there was no data loss. After receiving the replacement drives in from RMA, I rebuilt the ZFS array (using raidz again) and went along my merry way. After 6 months or so, I started getting some funky results from my other drive. Thinking it might have some issue as with the others, I removed the drive and ran Seatools on it (by the way, Seatools doesn’t offer a 64-bit Windows version – what year is this?). The drive didn’t show any signs of failure, so I decided to wipe it and add it back into the array to see what happens. That, of course, is easier said than done.

Install CAB files directly to a Windows Mobile Device from your Desktop via ActiveSync

Downloading a CAB file to install onto your Windows Mobile device can…

Simple Disk Benchmarking in Linux Using ‘dd’

A great way to do a real-world disk test on your linux…