How do i 'deactivate' a plugin only on a certain page template?

Question

I have a plugin which is great but it's kind of aggressive, and it changes a lot more than it should (but there are no settings to fix this).

I have a custom page template that calls wp_head('less') ... header-less.php, and i have an equivalent for footer-less.php.

I basically want, in this custom header-less.php to DE-REGISTER the plugin immediately after it gets registered.

note that i dont want to DeACTIVATE the plugin, because i really need the functionality on the other page templates, only on this certain template do I want to basically 'destroy' the plugin or deactivate it somehow

Answer 1

A quick glance at that plugin shows that it loads the filters from an option, trueedit_options. You might be able to add a filter to option_trueedit_options and check the context of when that option is being loaded and return an empty array. It runs on init though, so not sure how you'd determine that.

Another option is to add the filters back on in your header file. If you look in /wp-includes/default-filters.php you'll see all of the filters that are added to the content which could potentially be removed by the plugin:

add_filter( 'the_content', 'wptexturize'        );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'convert_smilies'    );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'convert_chars'      );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop'            );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'shortcode_unautop'  );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'prepend_attachment' );