active and used add-ons
How Do I?
How do I determine which add-ons are active and used?
I have a third-party directory with 100+ add-ons. On a local copy of the site, as a brute force method, I renamed the third-party directory, created an empty third-party directory and reloaded the site.
Every time it died with an error, I looked for the add-on that was missing and made a symlink to the appropriate add-on. Without going through the entire site, one page at a time, how do I determine if the list I have is in fact complete?
There is no documentation, so I do not know if an add-on is simply loaded, but not being used. How do I reduce this list even further?
Ultimately, this is all part of an upgrade from 2.9.2 to 3.3.3. I’m trying to reduce the number of add-ons that I’ll need to upgrade or fix.
Any suggestions?
I have a third-party directory with 100+ add-ons.
Wowzers!
So I would examine three tables, which should get you 90%+ of the way there. exp_modules, exp_extensions, and exp_actions. The actions table shouldn’t have entries for things that aren’t also in the modules table, but with over 100, I wouldn’t take any chances.
In v2, plugins don’t have to be installed, so to check whether or not they are in use, look for three things, though only #1 is highly common, and is the easiest to address:
exp:plugin_namein your templates. You can use a project-wide search in your text editor if you save templates as files, or you can use the search in the Template Manager if you do not.exp_channel_fields, thefield_fmtcolumn, in case you have plugins in use that are being used as custom field formatters.exp_field_formattingto see if you had any fields that allowed a plugin to be used as a formatting override on the Publish page, as an option to content authors. If any plugins are in this table, you’ll want to check that field ID’s_fmtcolumn inexp_channel_data.
The exp:plugin_name search added a few missing ones but so far I’ve whittled the list down to 62.
Is it normal to see 743 fields (3228 rows) in exp_channel_data?
Is it normal to see 743 fields (3228 rows) in exp_channel_data?
Every site’s content needs differ, but that does seem rather high, roughly 370 unique custom fields (on average there are two columns for every custom field in that table).