Installing as mu plugin

[blocka]

How would you handle a situation where you wanted a plugin to land in mu instead of plugins?

[Rarst]

Use Custom Install Paths to redirect their packages into desired folder.

[blocka]

I tried

"extra": {
    "installer-paths": {
        "public/content/mu-plugins/{$name}": ["wpackagist/unfiltered-mu"]
    }

and then

composer update wpackagist/unfiltered-mu

But it insists on sticking it in the plugins folder...

I tried removing the plugin completely, and trying again, and that didn't work either.

[Rarst]

Quick test with this worked fine for me on install.

{
    "name"        : "rarst/mu-test",
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url" : "http://wpackagist.org"
        }
    ],
    "require"     : {
        "wpackagist/unfiltered-mu": "*"
    },
    "extra"       : {
        "installer-paths": {
            "public/content/mu-plugins/{$name}": ["wpackagist/unfiltered-mu"]
        }
    }
}

[blocka]

You're starting from scratch, and I'm starting from an existing composer.json.

Is it not working because i'm calling update instead or install? I can't run install because of my composer.lock file. Is there a way to just run the install part of this again?

[Rarst]

It might be since paths are probably captured in lock. If deleting plugin's folder isn't helping I'd try deleting lock and running install.

[blocka]

Sorry about this...I had another entry in installer-paths for "public/content/mu-plugins/{$name}"

[kraftner]

Just in case anyone had the same issue: If you want force a plugin to be a mu-plugin you need to add the line before the normal plugin path:

"installer-paths" : {
     "public/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}": ["wpackagist-plugin/disable-google-fonts"],
     "public/wp-content/plugins/{$name}" : ["type:wordpress-plugin"],
     "public/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}": ["type:wordpress-muplugin"],
     "public/wp-content/themes/{$name}" : ["type:wordpress-theme"]
}

As this won't work:

"installer-paths" : {
     "public/wp-content/plugins/{$name}" : ["type:wordpress-plugin"],
     "public/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}": ["type:wordpress-muplugin", "wpackagist-plugin/disable-google-fonts"],
     "public/wp-content/themes/{$name}" : ["type:wordpress-theme"]
}

[mckelvin]

@kraftner But this works:

"installer-paths" : {
     "public/wp-content/plugins/{$name}" : ["type:wordpress-plugin"],
     "public/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}": ["wpackagist-plugin/disable-google-fonts", "type:wordpress-muplugin"],
     "public/wp-content/themes/{$name}" : ["type:wordpress-theme"]
}

Actually you should put "wpackagist-plugin/disable-google-fonts" prior to "type:wordpress-muplugin".