id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 19721,WordPress should support multiple or nested plugin directories,scottnath,scottnath,"WordPress currently only looks one directory deep for the plugin files. This is a limitation in get_plugins. It should look at least two (or more). Our setup: We have many sites on WordPress and would like to share a set of plugins across them. However, we also have a requirement where each site should have its own unique set of plugins as well. (I realize this seems like an easy job for Multisite or mu=plugins, but they're not something we can adopt currently for various reasons). Ideally, we can create a symlink (or external/submodule) to our shared plugins folder from inside the core plugins folder and have WordPress recognize plugins within that folder: * plugins Folder * hello-dolly.php * akismet * akismet.php * shared-plugins (symlink) * shared-plugins folder * hello-dolly-enhanced * hello-dolly-enhanced.php * akismet-enhanced * akismet-enhanced.php Currently, WordPress will ignore both hello-dolly-enhanced and akismet-enhanced. Themes already support nested folder; plugins should too please! Thanks, Scott Nath",feature request,closed,normal,,Plugins,3.3,normal,wontfix,,,