This is my starting point for the mu-plugins folder. It pairs nicely with my hybrid starter theme.
It includes modifications of core WordPress along with configuration changes to specific plugins.
- Turn off and hide comments
- Reorder and cleanup admin menu and admin bar
- Style the login screen and change links to go to homepage rather that wordpress.org
- Notify me of site errors rather than Admin Email
- Automatic feed links
- Set
DISALLOW_FILE_EDITto true - [email] shortcode for obfuscating email addresses and making email links with pre-filled subjects
- Enqueue a stylesheet for adding CSS to the admin
- Add Featured Image and Excerpt support to Pages
- Add Announcement Banner feature (depends on ACF)
- Advanced Custom Fields PRO - Stores JSON fields in /mu-plugins/acf-json/ and loads them from there.
- The Events Calendar - Numerous changes to default behavior and templates. This is a copy of my TEC resets
- WP-CFM - Stores and loads settings JSON files from /mu-plugins/wp-cfm-json/
- Archived Post Status - Hides archived posts from default post list
- Core
- Yoast SEO - Including if The Events Calendar, Content Audit, and WooCommerce are installed
- Editoria11y - Helpful default elements and pages to ignore