Feature Request: Allow Symlinking of plugins and themes

[jasonbahl]

What

I would love to be able to symlink plugins and themes.

Why

As a plugin developer, I often spin up new sites to reproduce specific scenarios, discover edge cases, etc and I would like to be able to symlink plugin(s) into my studio managed sites so that I can use a canonical version of the plugin(s) on my machine across different studio sites.

How

I would like to be able to :

• navigate to the plugins directory of my studio site:
  cd ~/Studio/site-name/wp-content/plugins

• symlink a plugin I have on my machine into the site:
  ln -s ~/path/to/my/plugin

• Activate the symlinked plugin in my studio site

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Currently, I can symlink a plugin into the plugins directory and it shows properly symlinked on my machine, but the WP admin does not show the symlinked plugin as an available plugin to activate.