Textpattern Support Forum

speeke wrote:

I was wondering if this (very useful!) plugin could be modified to include a magic button to automatically disable any plugins that aren’t being used?

Sadly no. “In use” is a very esoteric term that the plugin interprets like this: is there any reference to the plugin from any Page or Form (can’t remember if it checks articles as well… it may do).

This is fine for most cases, but it has a few shortfalls:

• admin side plugins are missed entirely (hence the fact you can choose to exclude them by clicking the button again to toggle ‘C’ and ‘A+C’)
• library plugins such as smd_lib may be required but are never “used” (as such)
• plugins such as rvm_maintenance may be switched on so you don’t expose your site to the outside world. It too is never ‘used’ — just toggled on and off — so an auto switch in smd_where_used would switch it off, which is undesirable

There are probably other reasons, but that kind of thing is why I chose to make the plugin report only on what it finds and not take any direct action like delete stuff or change anything — I’m bound to get it wrong and kill something important! My philosophy is: leave humans in the loop :-) So, sorry: no can do.

geroldbraun wrote:

And soon i will have to look for links (in articles, in static-sites, in sidebars, etc.) that i will have to change from http://pagetest.mydomain.com to http://mydomain.com.

Here’s a very good reason for not hardcoding your internal URLs :) Use <txp:site_url /> and the only thing that needs to be changed is ‘Site URL’ in preferences.

arrgh – i think there is a little bug with <txp:site_url />. If i use it in forms everything is fine, but .. used in “article” to display a picture, the design of the site goes broken.
Example: a hardcoded <img src=“http://www.subpage.mydomain.de/images/6.jpg”> will do what expected; a tag-coded <img src=”<txp:site_url />images/6.jpg”> will not show the picture but “kill” the design.

@geroldbraun:

Also, for all internal links or references to files, images, etc, you don’t need to specify the domain. You can use an absolute path without including the full domain.

Like: <img src="/images/6.jpg" />
Or: <a href="/contact/">Contact me</a>

Those should remain working when you move your site.

Just a heads-up for those of you running SVN >= 3300. The pre-release version of smd_where_used (v0.3) can be grabbed from the beta download page. It adds the ability to search for text strings inside Stylesheets.