Plugins Page Cleanup

Cleans up WordPress's plugins.php.

Description

• Removes formatting from links
• Allows renaming plugin titles
• Prevents redirecting away from plugins.php on plugin activation
• Moves external links from the action links (first) column into the description column, and vice-versa
• Moves deactivate to the end of the list of action links, and settings to the beginning (where it exists)
• Replaces GitHub links with icons
• Removes click handlers on Deactivate links (to remove deactivation surveys)

Before:

After:

Rename plugins:

Removes JavaScript hooked to deactivation buttons to prevent these:

Installation

Download the latest release.

TODO:

• Set a max-length on plugin titles (line-break) so the description column isn't too cramped. Added renaming.
• When removing a Licence link, add an admin notice for a few days so users can still easily access the page.
• Add a UI for adding Settings links for plugins that don't have them
• Add installed date and last updated date on each plugin
• Logs should go before Deactivate, never ahead of anything else.
• Reconsider use of PHP_INT_MAX in actions.

More Information

See github.com/BrianHenryIE/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate for initial setup rationale.

Acknowledgements

I was finally promoted to write this after seeing someone (Timbr) complain about this same irritating problem on Discord.