[Plugin: Cimy User Extra Fields] will not activate in relocated plugin directory environment

The problem is not the shared directory or the locaion, is you changed ‘plugins’ to something else right?

I always missed the right bit to reproduce this issue.

anmari can you _please_ paste here your wp-config.php lines related on the topic?
If you paste a way to reproduce instead of random fixes I double check your fix doesn’t break other installations.

If you keep not posting a use case to reproduce then you’re just posting noise here.
Please add the relative wp-config.php lines that you have, so I paste exactly into mine.

Marco, I came to report something else (and will do, in a separate post), but saw this topic first…

I haven’t tested the bug anmari reports (am finishing the day, and can look at it tomorrow), but I do have exactly this development environment configured with one plugin folder/many installs.

The wp-config code for my wp31.dev, wp32.dev, wp33.dev and wp39.dev is this:

define( 'WP_PLUGIN_DIR', '/www_dev/dev.wp00/wp-content/plugins' );
define( 'WP_PLUGIN_URL', 'https://wp00.dev/wp-content/plugins');
define( 'WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR', '/www_dev/dev.wp00/wp-content/mu-plugins' );
define( 'WPMU_PLUGIN_URL', 'https://wp00.dev/wp-content/mu-plugins');

So, all dev sites read the plugin from wp00.dev

Hi sorry didn’t get the updates on these.

I usually keep at least 3 wp installs
wp-beta
wp latest
wp ms

I have my main plugin folder in one install

Then in the others I have

define( ‘WP_PLUGIN_DIR’, ‘C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-content/plugins’ );
define( ‘WP_PLUGIN_URL’, ‘https://localhost/wp/wp-content/plugins’);

to use the plugins from the main install

Sometimes I share the whole WP_CONTENT folder in similar manner.
I also have

define(‘CUSTOM_USER_TABLE’, ‘wp_users’);
define(‘CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE’, ‘wp_usermeta’);

so can have different sets of user databases (large / small for test purposes) – That trips up plugins not using std wp user db calls !! $wpdb->user

Basically plugin/theme authors MUST use the correct wp functions to avoid failing in these situations.

All right thanks, will try to reproduce and fix.

Fixed in v2.3.8