Add API for additional required plugins

[discobot]

If a theme / plugin requires / depends on another plugin, show a note to allow/deny during install.

Maybe include a way to preset options/data for the additional plugin, e.g. if CF7 is required, auto-install it (if “allow” is selected) and provide/install custom premade contact-forms.

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Read-only archive: Issues · ClassicPress/ClassicPress · GitHub

Author: Dora D.

Vote count: 14

Status: Declined

Tags:

• request-add-feature

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Comments

We’ll need to implement this before we can remove basically any feature that plugins may depend on. For example: Issues · ClassicPress/ClassicPress · GitHub

It’s also a widely-requested feature from WP plugin developers who want to package utility code into a framework plugin.

~ posted by James Nylen

Essentially: Bake TGMPA into core.
=> http://tgmpluginactivation.com/

~ posted by Fabian Wolf

Or, another option that Pieter pointed out in Slack: GitHub - afragen/wp-dependency-installer: A lightweight class to add to WordPress plugins/themes to automatically install plugin dependencies.

Or we could come up with a way to use composer for this.

~ posted by James Nylen

An approach using WP-style plugin metadata is in progress at GitHub - invisnet/ClassicPress at v2.

~ posted by James Nylen

[viktor]

@wadestriebel Is this still slated for version 2? I see your message update, but I have a feeling it’s an old one and might be outdated as dependencies haven’t been mentioned recently.

[james]

Not going to be done in time for version 2.

[viktor]

This will be closed. This isn’t something we will add, but it may be coming to WordPress:

Feature Project: Plugin Dependencies