Extra Chill Network

Network-activated WordPress plugin providing the network administration foundation for the ExtraChill Platform.

Overview

This WordPress network plugin serves as the network administration foundation for the ExtraChill multisite network, providing essential network-wide functionality that supports all 11 active sites (Blog IDs 1–5, 7–12).

Current native subsites include Blog, Community, Shop, Artist Platform, Events, Newsletter, Docs, Wire, and Studio.

Features

• Network Admin Menu Consolidation - Centralized top-level network admin menu for all ExtraChill Platform settings and configuration
• Cloudflare Turnstile Integration - Network-wide captcha management and configuration accessible from all network sites
• OAuth Provider Settings - Network-wide Google OAuth configuration with helper functions for extrachill-users integration
• Payment Provider Settings - Network-wide Stripe configuration for extrachill-shop integration

Purpose

This plugin maintains focused responsibility for network administration infrastructure. Historical features like user management, search, and newsletter integration have been successfully migrated to specialized plugins (extrachill-users, extrachill-search, extrachill-newsletter) following the platform's single responsibility principle.

Architecture

• Network Activated - Single plugin serving all sites in the multisite network
• Cross-Site Data Access - Uses switch_to_blog() / restore_current_blog() for cross-site operations
• Performance Optimized - Central blog ID + domain map helpers for fast cross-site resolution
• Centralized Configuration - Network-wide settings stored via get_site_option() accessible from all sites
• Modular Organization - Core functionality in inc/core/, site-specific features in dedicated directories, admin interface in admin/
• Security First - Comprehensive admin access control, Cloudflare Turnstile integration, and capability checks

Requirements

• WordPress 5.0+
• WordPress Multisite installation
• PHP 7.4+

Email helpers

Centralized branded mail for the EC platform. Consumer plugins call ec_send_email() instead of raw wp_mail() and get:

• EC-branded HTML wrapper (header, link grid, footer) via the extrachill/branded template registered against datamachine_email_templates.
• Automatic switch_to_blog() to an SMTP-configured site via mail_site_id, so sends originating on a subsite without local SMTP credentials no longer silently fail.

Quick usage

ec_send_email( array(
    'to'      => $user_email,
    'subject' => 'Extra Chill Got Your Message',
    'context' => array(
        'recipient_name' => $user_name,
        'body_html'      => '<p>Thanks for reaching out!</p>',
        'preheader'      => 'We received your message.',
    ),
) );

// Queued / non-blocking variant (Action Scheduler):
ec_send_email_queued( array(
    'to'      => $user_email,
    'subject' => 'Welcome to Extra Chill',
    'context' => array(
        'recipient_name' => $user_name,
        'body_html'      => '<p>Welcome aboard.</p>',
        'cta_url'        => $onboarding_url,
        'cta_label'      => 'Complete your account',
    ),
) );

Templates

• extrachill/branded — full EC wrapper with platform link grid + footer. Use for welcome emails, confirmations, anything non-urgent.
• extrachill/minimal — stripped wrapper without the link grid. Use for transactional sends (password reset, 2FA, settings changes).

Templates live as PHP partials under templates/email/ and accept the following context keys (all optional):

Override markup without forking by filtering extrachill_email_template_path and returning a different absolute path for the template ID you want to swap.

Helpers

• extrachill_mail_site_id() / ec_mail_site_id() — return the blog ID of the closest SMTP-configured site (current site if configured, else ec_get_blog_id('main')). Short-circuits on a single per-site probe. Safe to call from any subsite context.
• extrachill_site_has_smtp( int $blog_id ): bool — runtime probe of the per-site easy_wp_smtp option. Returns true when the site has a non-default mailer selected (anything other than PHP's built-in mail) and non-empty credentials for that provider. Result is cached for 15 minutes in a network transient (ec_site_has_smtp_{$blog_id}) and busted automatically when the underlying option is added / updated / deleted.
• Ability extrachill/mail-site-id exposes the same resolution through the Abilities API for WP-CLI / REST / chat tooling.
• Function extrachill_smtp_configured_sites() returns the live list of SMTP-configured site IDs on the network — produced by probing every active site via extrachill_site_has_smtp(), not a hardcoded allowlist. The per-site probe is transient-cached so the network scan is cheap on warm cache.
• Filter extrachill_smtp_configured_sites is still a valid escape hatch — use it to force-add a site whose probe returns false (e.g. credentials live in wp-config.php constants) or to force-remove a site whose credentials are known broken at a higher layer. The default value passed to the filter is now the live probed list, not a static array.

Layer dependency

These helpers are thin wrappers around Data Machine's datamachine/send-email and datamachine/send-email-queued abilities. They no-op gracefully (return [ 'success' => false, 'error' => ... ]) when Data Machine is not active, so they are safe to add to consumer plugins even on installs that ship without DM.

VPS deployment notes

Reference nginx config for new VPS deployments lives in docs/nginx/ — bot/credential-scanner blocking, /wp-json/ rate limiting, and /wp-login.php brute-force rate limiting. Codified after the 2026-05-10 DOS event so a server rebuild can restore the abuse-mitigation layer without re-mining logs.