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Stage WP Plugin Manager

Gives you the option to determine which plugins must be automatically activated either on local, staging or productions stages.

By Andrés Villarreal·Stage·Free
5(3 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 11 years ago
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As of April 2026, Stage WP Plugin Manager is a WordPress stage plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Theater for WordPress.

5/53 reviews
10active installs
2.8K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

If you develop in a local machine, at some point you’ll have some active plugins there that you don’t need in the servers that you’re deploying to. Sure, you can deactivate them in your local machine before deploying, or after deploying in the remote ones, but you’re gonna need them again to be active if you want to perform local work in the future, specially when you update your local database from a remote one. On such kind of scenarios, the whole process of manually activating and deactivating plugins for each stage can be really frustrating, sometimes even taking a lot of your time.

Stage WP Plugin Manager is meant to solve that problem in an quick and elegant way, by doing an automatic “fake” activation of the plugins you select for each stage: ev…

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Ratings & Reviews

53 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.0.38
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0

First public release.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Andrés VillarrealAndrés Villarreal
Plugin Info
Version
1.0
Last Updated
Dec 7, 2014
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
4.0.38
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
2.8K+
Added
Apr 11, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

stagemanagerpluginstesting

Developer

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Andrés Villarreal
4 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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