I find that folks often first try safe mode whenever anything breaks and they’re using 3rd party customisations. This makes sense. You don’t know where the issue is coming from. However, safe mode only disables javascript. If there’s any server-side code, typically the immediate solution is to un-c…

Current safe mode is just for the current page and goes away in a new tab or a refresh. So it is completely safe for testing. Your proposal would change the meaning of it into flipping a setting persistently, affecting the entire site. That means it also needs to be restricted to admins. I underst…

True. I think the key point is that non-technical site admins look for a fix to get their site working when it’s broken. A “ Safe mode ” is often perceived to do that (rightly or wrongly). Perhaps a way to do this would be to have additional admin safe-mode controls. You could add a big button in th…

Usually the stuff that breaks plugins are incompatible core changes, often things don’t even boot if you include a problem plugin, or bootstrap An all plugins off feature would have to restart the app somehow to be correct I think I would be open to a docker manager plugin change that would allow …

I think that would be good as well. However, I do find that a not in-substantial number of errors come from code wrapped in the server-side plugin api, which would be handled by this (I think?). Currently, the ‘ safe mode ’ (or something like it) is not a complete solution to breaking issues either.…

[image] angus: Adding a automatic disabling of plugins would make it a slightly better solution, reducing the number of instances in which a full restart / config change is required, and better reflecting how non-technical site admins see it. Yes, if possible someday, it would be very good t…

A big factor for me is that this feature would be 100% for self hosters, I don’t really want to carry a safe mode for plugins in core, it is certainly not something we would use, coordinating a restart across 5 clusters is hard Docker manager is the right vehicle here, it already supports restartin…

Adding server-side plugin disabling to safe mode

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angus (Angus McLeod) April 17, 2020, 2:48am 9

Got it. I’ll focus my attention there.

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Adding server-side plugin disabling to safe mode

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