WordPress MU-Plugin Autoloader

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Introduction

This WordPress MU-Plugin loads MU-Plugins from subdirectories. WordPress only looks for PHP files right inside the MU-Plugins directory, and not for files in subdirectories (unlike for normal plugins).

After installing the package, copy the mu-plugin-autoloader.php file inside of the MU-Plugins directory (/mu-plugins), to load WordPress MU-Plugins automatically.

This MU-Plugin is a modified version based on the richardtape/subdir-loader.php Github Gist.

Requirements

• PHP: ^7.*
• WordPress: ^5.*

Installation

composer require dark-kitt/wordpress-mu-plugin-autoloader

If you have a specific path to your MU-Plugin directory, please add the following lines to your composer.json file.

"extra": {
  "installer-paths": {
    "path/to/mu-plugins/{$name}/": [
      "type:wordpress-muplugin"
    ]
  },
  "wordpress-install-dir": "path/to/wordpress"
},

Note, for a specific commit of your VCS Repo "require": { "vendor/repo_name": "dev-main#eec8698" } (branch#commit).

common composer cmds

composer install
composer update
# package control
composer require verdor/package
composer remove verdor/package

composer clear-cache
composer show -i # installed packages

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License

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Includes

• richardtape/subdir-loader.php