Gives you the option to determine which plugins must be automatically activated either on local, staging or productions stages.
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.
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…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.0.38 |
| PHP | false+ required |
First public release.
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