Will any 3rd party WordPress plugins work on Google App Engine?

  • I’ve successfully installed a basic WordPress blog on Google App Engine, using Google’s WP quickstart project for GAE, and their GAE WordPress plugin. I now need to install various other 3rd party wordpress plugins to the blog.

    My question is can I expect any 3rd party WordPress plugins to work properly, given App Engine’s restrictions on local file writes (so needing to use Google Cloud Storage instead), and any other app engine restrictions (e.g. Mail usage, and any others?). i.e. does the GAE WordPress Plugin patch WordPress so that any random 3rd party plugin will automatically work properly?

    If not, what can I expect to go wrong, and what can I do about it? (I know, a slightly general question, but looking for any tips or strategy for fixing from anyone with experience in this).

    Worst case scenario: I have to manually patch any broken plugins to cope with no local file writing (etc), or ask the plugin developer to. Hopefully the situation is not this bad!?

    (Note: I know that plugins have to be installed on WP on my dev SDK on my local machine, then the whole app redeployed, then the plugins activated on my live GAE WP site)

    Many thanks, Alex

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  • Plugin Author slangley

    (@slangley)

    Generally speaking plugins that use the proper WordPress APIs should have a good chance of working out of the box, however some plugins bypass these and use things like cURL directly.

    Do you have any particular plug ins in mind which don’t appear to work?

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