Detect disabled plugin when using shortcodes

  • Resolved tezalsec

    (@tezalsec)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    Hi Jose,

    would it be possible to build in a mechanism that your plugin automatically detects when a certain shortcode is used on a page but not executed because the underlying plugin is disabled by your plugin?

    I spent a few hours recently, to figure out why a certain shortcode would not execute. I was blaming WPML, I was blaming Elementor, I was blaming cache, but then, after shutting down plugins one by one, the cause was your plugin. Not a bug, but a personal configuration I had forgotten about, and needed to be applied to a new page containing the shortcode.

    Example:
    Contact Form 7 is disabled on all pages but the contact page by your wonderful plugin. So far, so good. A year later, the site becomes multilangual, a second contact page is created in another language, but the shortcode won’t work, because the administrator (me in this case) forgot all about the plugin being disabled on all pages other than the original contact page.

    So the checked conditions would be:
    – if logged in as admin
    – if page content contains the shortcode brackets, suggesting the shortcode has not been executed
    – your plugin shows an admin message saying: shortcode not executed, possibly due to disabled plugins, the following plugins are disabled on this page.

    Maybe this is too far fetched and maybe you do not consider this the responsibility of your plugin, and I would agree, but it would be super user-friendly for people being not always sharp on the invisible effects of your plugin.

    So, I just wanted to hand you the option to take into consideration. Thanks for considering it. ??

    Much Thanks! Regards, Tez


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  • Plugin Author Jose

    (@giuse)

    Hi @tezalsec

    something similar is already implemented in the PRO version.
    Read Decide what to do after saving a single post

    If you set “Check if the right plugins are disabled”, every time you save a page/post, FDP will check if there are plugins that had to be active but aren’t. In the case of an orphan shortcode, it would detect the issue.
    It will not tell you which plugin was wrongly disabled because it would require too much time every time you save a page/post, but it will tell you that there are some plugins that should not be disabled. This is because to detect which plugin was the cause it has to load the page every time disabling one plugin after the other, and it would require too much time. But after you see the warning, you can use the auto-suggestion to ask FDP which plugins are needed. See here: https://freesoul-deactivate-plugins.com/how-deactivate-plugiins-on-specific-pages/auto-suggestion/

    This is a feature that we will not put to the free version because we also need to sell the PRO version ??

    In any case, I suggest always checking the preview of the page before saving. Selectively disabling plugins can be very powerful but also not very simple.

    Have a great day!

    Jose

    Thread Starter tezalsec

    (@tezalsec)

    Very clear, thank you, Jose! I will consider the PRO version in the future! ??

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