One of the main issues people seem to have on Meta is broken plugins. There is a natural assumption that ‘disabling’ a plugin in the admin interface will stop any issues caused by it. The reality is that plugin javascript is still loaded, and can still completely break Discourse. I have a working P…

If one disables a plugin is there a way to force it to load so that it can be enebled?

Disable javascript for disabled plugins

david (David Taylor) August 27, 2017, 10:13am 3

The option to enable it is still available in the admin interface - that doesn’t need any JavaScript

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