The Pantheon Must-Use Plugin has been designed to tailor the WordPress CMS experience for Pantheon's platform.
What does that mean? We're glad you asked!
Integrates WordPress with Pantheon Worklow. Encourages updating plugins and themes in the Development environment and using Pantheon's git-based upstream core updates. Alerts admins if an update is available but disables automatic updates (so those updates can be applied via the upstream).
Customized login form. The login page links back to the Pantheon dashboard on dev, test and live environments that do not have a domain attached.
Facilitates communication between Pantheon's Edge Cache layer and WordPress. It allows you to set the default cache age, clear individual pages on demand, and it will automatically clear relevant urls when the site is updated. Authored by Matthew Boynes.
Simplified multisite configuration. The WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE
is automatically defined on WordPress Multisite-based upstreams. The Network Setup pages and notices have been customized for a Pantheon-specific WordPress multisite experience.
Put your site into a maintenance mode. Prevent users from accessing your sites during major updates by enabling Maintenance Mode either in the WordPress admin or via WP-CLI.
The Pantheon Must-Use Plugin provides the following hooks that can be used in your code:
Filter the text displayed on the login page next to the Return to Pantheon button.
Default Value: Log into your WordPress Site
Example:
add_filter( 'pantheon_wp_login_text', function() {
return 'Log into MySite.';
} );
Filter the default cache max-age for the Pantheon Edge Cache.
Default Value: WEEK_IN_SECONDS
(604800)
Example:
add_filter( 'pantheon_cache_default_max_age', function() {
return 2 * WEEK_IN_SECONDS;
} );
Allows you to modify the maintenance mode behavior with more advanced conditionals.
Default Value: Boolean, depending on whether maintenance mode is enabled, user is not on the login page and the action is not happening in WP-CLI.
add_filter( 'pantheon_cache_do_maintenance_mode', function( $do_maintenance_mode ) {
if ( $some_conditional_logic ) {
return false;
}
return $do_maintenance_mode;
} );
Allows you to disable the ability to clear the entire cache from the WordPress admin. If set to false
, this removes the "Clear Site Cache" section of the Pantheon Page Cache admin page.
Default Value: true
Example:
add_filter( 'pantheon_cache_allow_clear_all', '__return_false' );
Allows you to disable the cache control headers that are sent by the Pantheon Page Cache plugin.
Default Value: false
Example:
add_filter( 'pantheon_skip_cache_control', '__return_true' );
Runs at the top of the Pantheon Page Cache settings page.
Example:
add_action( 'pantheon_cache_settings_page_top', function() {
echo '<h2>My Custom Heading</h2>';
} );
Runs at the bottom of the Pantheon Page Cache settings page.
Example:
add_action( 'pantheon_cache_settings_page_bottom', function() {
echo '<p>My Custom Footer</p>';
} );
Built for Composer. While Pantheon automation ensures that the latest version of the MU plugin are pushed with every update to WordPress, the Composer-based project ensures that you can manage it alongside your other WordPress mu-plugins, plugins and themes in your composer.json
.
composer require pantheon-systems/pantheon-mu-plugin