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WordPress Plugins: PHPInfo and PluginsUsedPlugin

Posted by Mark | Filed under Plugins, WordPress

I’ve been work­ing on some stuff behind the scenes here at CoffeeBear.net with the inten­tion of even­tu­ally upgrad­ing the site’s back­end and devel­op­ing a new theme for the site. In the process of doing all this behind the scenes works, I’ve been try­ing out new plu­g­ins and wanted a quick way to check my server’s setup with­out putting a page for just any­body to view (e.g. cre­at­ing my own phpinfo page). I found this a plu­gin by Design­praxis which basi­cally adds the out­put from phpinfo to WordPress’s admin panel. Unfor­tu­nately, it buries the page/info under the Options panel. So I hacked it up to move the out­put under the Dash­board panel. Then I thought, it would be great if it could also list off all the plu­g­ins my site uses and what ver­sion of those plu­g­ins. I already have the plu­g­in­sUsed­Plu­gin installed but it didn’t sup­port plain-text out­put. So I hacked it up to out­put in plain-text, hacked up Phpinfo to include that plain-text out­put and then there was much rejoicing.

I thought it only fair to share my hacks, so enjoy or not as you choose. I’m sure there’s a more ele­gant way to code these changes, but I am not a pro­gram­mer so if you use these and don’t like how I changed them… Well, you just have to suf­fer then. :p Feel free to ask ques­tions but keep in mind:

• I’m not a programmer.
• These plu­g­ins aren’t orig­i­nally mine. I don’t know much about how they work. I only know enough to hack together my changes.
• If my hacked ver­sions don’t work for you, try the orig­i­nals before ask­ing me for help. The peo­ple who made the orig­i­nals should have a bet­ter idea of why things work/don’t work.

CoffeeBear’s Hacked Plugins

• Down­load PHPInfo 1.1b.
• Down­load plu­g­in­sUsed­Plu­gin 0.1.11b.

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