Title: Plugins Genius
Author: Marco Canestrari
Published: <strong>avril 10, 2013</strong>
Last modified: août 29, 2016

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Plugins Genius

 By [Marco Canestrari](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marcocanestrari/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/plugins-genius.2.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-genius/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-genius/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-genius/#installation)
 * [Development](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-genius/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/)

## Description

Plugins Genius allows you to choose which plugins should be active in the frontend
and in the backend.
 Some plugins affects only the frontend, some only the backend
of WordPress and some of them make WordPress slow.

Now you can tune your WordPress site, actvating plugins only where you need.

 * Author: [Marco Canestrari](http://www.marcocanestrari.it/)

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * When Plugins Genius is active, standard plugins page is like that: all plugins
   inactive except Plugins Genius.
 * [[
 * You can select active plugin from Plugins Genius configuration page.

## Installation

 1. Upload the files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugins-genius/ directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Go to « Plugins Genius » tab and select which plugin should be active for each 
    role

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/91368bab416db58019f16adce9ddbc989e78b3d59b8b05499b5a38b3ee98a3f8?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[This is what I was looking for](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-what-i-was-looking-for-13/)󠁿

 [Hiltje van Gijssel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hiltje-van-gijssel/) novembre
8, 2016

Works great and simple

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9d6f492cce78f172a646b0bbdcefe25561a20fbd67043471efff5c6f77a8178f?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[wonderful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wonderful-285/)󠁿

 [4system](https://profiles.wordpress.org/4system/) septembre 3, 2016

That’s exactly what I was looking for and works very well.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Plugins Genius” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Marco Canestrari ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marcocanestrari/)

[Translate “Plugins Genius” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/plugins-genius)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/plugins-genius/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/plugins-genius/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/plugins-genius/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/plugins-genius/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.1.1

 * Fixed a bug that caused frontend ajax action for anonymous users not to work

#### 2.1.0

 * Hooked get_option(‘active_plugins’) to return role-based active plugins
 * Role-based active plugins displayed on classic plugins page

#### 2.0.0

 * Plugin Genius code is now Object Oriented
 * Activaction hooks are now fired when a new plugin is activated within Plugins
   Genius
 * Fixed a bug that caused some plugins not beeing correctly loaded

#### 1.0.0

 * Added nonce security
 * Tested on WordPress 3.5.2

#### 0.9.7

 * Fixed bug causing fatal error on wp_get_current_user() function

#### 0.9.6

 * Security fix

#### 0.9.5

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.1.1**
 *  Last updated **10 années ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.6.30**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-genius/)
 * Tags
 * [plugins](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/plugins/)[role](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/role/)
   [roles](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/roles/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-genius/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  3 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Marco Canestrari ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marcocanestrari/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/plugins-genius/)

## Donate

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