CUNY Academic Commons

Looking over the plugins briefly, it looks like we should actually be able to swap one out for the other. Neither one stores any data, and they both do nearly the same thing.

One place where the two plugins differ is that add-category-to-pages allows for page tags as well as categories. Page Tagger only enables tags. Is this the "improvement" that you have in mind?

I would prefer not to add the new plugin alongside the old one; a swap-out would be preferable. But swapping is non-trivial - I need to write a script that cycles through all sites, deactivates the old plugin, and activates the new one. I'd prefer to avoid that task unless there's a good reason to do so. So, question for you: for your use case, do you explicitly need the ability to add Categories to pages?

Ah, I'm glad you asked. It looks like the number of sites running the plugin is actually quite small - maybe a dozen. So it's probably just as fast to do it manually. I'll do it in a two-step process. For 1.8.16, I'll add the Category to Pages plugin, and I'll add Page Tagger to our list of plugins that are hidden from the plugins.php panel, so that it cannot be activated on any new sites. After 1.8.16, I'll manually swap the plugins on all the sites where Page Tagger is currently active. And in 1.8.17, I'll remove Page Tagger from the codebase.

add-category-to-pages added in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/f503a7bd983dcac918631a9a2162f80feaa7ad58
page-tagger hidden in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/24ddedce42ae498b23678c1a5750256ace1eaa22

I've swapped out the plugins on all sites where they were active. I'm moving the ticket to 1.8.17 to remember to remove page-tagger.

page-tagger removed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/59d5dc80b58037bb815bec4947aa0656aa79bc2c