I've found an older plugin for 1.6 from Milan. Seems like a good starting point. I've also found a reference to a plugin called Transfer by Brett - but have not found it yet... I'll nose around his gitHub repo... Anyone have any experience with either of these?

Found Brett's transfer_plugins at gitHub. Looks like he is woring to upgrade it to 1.8...

The mechanism for determining plugin order changed in 1.8, so any previous plugin won't work or really be a useful starting point I'm afraid.

Matt,

I am unfamiliar with pre-elgg 1.8 plugins and settings. I cannot find much documentation besides the code to get a handle on the current scheme. Brett's export code is as follows:

That all looks correct, that line is for back compatibility with 1.7, presumably he has an import function that can go from 1.7 => 1.8 or 1.8 => 1.8

can't hurt to test it out

Hi Jimmy,

I'm working in this plugin: https://github.com/lowfill/elgg_default_plugin_order

That allows to store the default plugin order via a configuration file. This plugin is in beta but could be used in production.

I'm planning to add the ability to store plugin configurations too. 

If you want to help with code and/or ideas fork the project on github.

@Diego: donde tu escondide hasta ahora ? no veo mucho tiempo ;) desde antes yo tratar aprende poco mas espanol ;-oO   salud y suerte!

Diego - Thanks for the info. I'll have a look at it. I'm currently looking at a plugin Brett authored called transfer_plugins. It was initially written for 1.7 but he has recently updated it to 1.8. I have it installed and have exported plugin settings / order / priority. So far it looks good. I will be testing import over the weekend or early next week. I'll post my the results of my tests here sometime next week. I found his code at his gitHub account.

You may be interrested in this plugin:

http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1114351/1/vazco-plugin-manager

It allows to transfer order but not settings. We also have a plugin that transfers settings and order between Elgg installs with use of our intranet server, although I don't want to post it in public. In case you want a copy to rebuild it and release publicly, please send me a note.

The plugin Jimmy mentioned supports 1.7 (https://github.com/brettp/transfer_plugins) and 1.8 (https://github.com/brettp/transfer_plugins/tree/2.X).