In vBulletin sometimes we need to disable plugins to trouble shoot a customers site.

Often customers do not wish to disable vBSEO, they think that doing so will cause very bad things to happen or if they do they disable it for a few moments, then we are unable test anything. They also do not like to provide us with the vBSEO password in the AdminCP.

What I am asking for, is a constant that will let vBSEO be disabled ala vBulletin's define("DISABLE_HOOKS", true);.

Right now, in order to make sure customers experience the least amount downtime while trouble shooting, we can use something like this:

if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == "ip"
{
$config['Misc']['debug'] = 1;
define("DISABLE_HOOKS", true);
}

This means that only the person with the ip address will see debug mode, and have the plugins disabled. Which allows us to test and diagnose problems on a customers site without impacting their uptime greatly.

So, I am requesting that a similar constant, or variable could be defined in the config file to let us help both of our customers.