Malcolm Peralty

<p>Governance Guardrails is a file-based WordPress governance plugin for site owners, agencies, and managed WordPress teams that want important operational rules to live in code instead of scattered database settings.</p>
<p>You define a policy in a PHP configuration file. Governance Guardrails reads that file on each request and applies the configured rules. This makes the policy easy to review, version-control, and deploy consistently across environments or multiple sites.</p>
<p>Governance Guardrails can help you manage:</p>
<ul>
<li>Feature toggles such as XML-RPC, comments, feeds, the Customizer, widgets, application passwords, user registration, WP-Cron, and related admin features.</li>
<li>Admin UI cleanup, including admin bar nodes, dashboard widgets, menu pages, and admin footer text.</li>
<li>Runtime capability denials by role without changing stored role definitions in the database.</li>
<li>Upload governance, including allowed MIME types and per-file size limits.</li>
<li>Content behavior such as revisions, autosave intervals, oEmbed, and emoji loading.</li>
<li>Login behavior such as password reset restrictions, generic login errors, and post-logout redirects.</li>
<li>HTTP security headers and other hardening options such as pingback removal, author archive handling, file editing restrictions, and staging noindex headers.</li>
<li>Head cleanup for RSD, WLW manifest, shortlinks, feed links, and REST API discovery links.</li>
<li>Locked options so selected <code>wp_options</code> values are pinned from code.</li>
<li>Custom governance callbacks for site-specific rules.</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin does not claim to secure a site by itself. It is intended as a governance and consistency tool that helps keep selected WordPress settings and behaviors aligned with your site’s operational policy.</p>
<h4>Must-use plugin support</h4>
<p>Governance Guardrails was originally built for must-use plugin deployment. It can still be installed that way by copying <code>governance-guardrails.php</code> and the <code>governance-guardrails/</code> directory into <code>wp-content/mu-plugins/</code>.</p>
<p>For WordPress.org installation, it can also be installed and activated as a normal plugin. In that case, the included sample config is used from the plugin directory unless you define a custom config path.</p>
<p>To use a custom config file, add this to <code>wp-config.php</code>:</p>
<pre><code>define( 'GOVGUARD_CONFIG', '/absolute/path/to/governance-guardrails-config.php' );
</code></pre>
<p>The shipped sample config lives at <code>governance-guardrails/governance-guardrails-config.php</code>.</p>
<p>Config loading is fail-open. If the config file is missing, unreadable, has a syntax error, or does not return an array, Governance Guardrails does not enforce governance rules and logs a warning instead of crashing the site.</p>
<h4>WP-CLI</h4>
<p>When WP-CLI is available, Governance Guardrails registers the <code>wp governance</code> command set.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>wp governance status</code></li>
<li><code>wp governance check</code></li>
<li><code>wp governance audit</code></li>
<li><code>wp governance audit --severity=high</code></li>
<li><code>wp governance diff</code></li>
<li><code>wp governance get features --format=json</code></li>
<li><code>wp governance mimes</code></li>
</ul>


Governance Guardrails

Governance Guardrails provides file-based rules for managing admin behavior, capabilities, uploads, and operational hardening from code.

Jose Mortellaro

<p>With Mu Manager you can manage the mu-plugins like the standard plugins.<br />
You can disable, enable, and delete mu-plugins as you do with normal plugins.</p>
<p>The mu-plugins are the plugins that load before any standard plugin. In a normal WordPress installation they are located in the folder wp-content/mu-plugins.</p>
<p>Usually, WordPress doesn’t allow you to deactivate the mu-plugins. With Mu Manager you can enable, disable, and delete mu-plugins without the need for FTP.</p>
<p>It’s useful if you need to temporarily deactivate a mu-plugin, or to get rid of some mu-plugins installed by some hosting providers that you don’t need.<br />
Some hosting providers, such as HostGator or Bluehost, might automatically install for instance a must-use plugin that enables the Endurance Page Cache, which you totally don’t need if you use a caching plugin.<br />
With Mu Plugin Manager you can easily get rid of Endurance Page Cache, or whatever mu-plugin that you don’t need.</p>
<h3>How to deactivate a mu-plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Go to the page of Plugins</li>
<li>Click on Must-Use</li>
<li>Click on Deactivate on the row of the mu-plugin that you want to deactivate</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to enable a previously disabled mu-plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Go to the page of Plugins</li>
<li>Click on Must-Use</li>
<li>Click on Activate on the row of the mu-plugin that you want to activate</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to delete a previously disabled mu-plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Go to the page of Plugins</li>
<li>Click on Must-Use</li>
<li>Click on Delete on the row of the mu-plugin that you want to delete</li>
</ul>
<h3>Help</h3>
<p>If you have any issues don’t hesitate to open a thread on the support forum.</p>


Mu Manager – Manage mu-plugins like standard plugins


Using GO_Dady Hosting. And Hosting Provide 2 Must Use Plugin. I can't deactivate them With that Plugin.


Not Working with GoDady Hosting

It lets you disable, enable, and delete mu-plugins as you do with the standard plugins.

Governance Guardrails vs Mu Manager – Manage mu-plugins like standard plugins