Activating plugins in multisite

  • Resolved inge12

    (@inge12)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    I noticed that Andrea said in one post that it is best to avoid network activation of plugins unless really necessary.

    Now I’d like to try out some plugins on the main site — or even on a test sub-site — but that seems impossible. When I go to the plugin interface on the main site, there’s no option to add a new plugin, unless I go into Network Admin mode. And in Network Admin mode, I can only network enable, not enable for main site only.

    Sub-sites also have no option of adding new plugins — only the option of activating or deactivating plugins. Thus I can’t test them out there. Of course, I suppose I can test them on another domain that doesn’t have multiple blogs, but is that the only way?

    Is that the way it’s supposed to be, or is there something in my setup that’s quirky?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    That said, upon download of a new plugin, does one Network activate it or not?

    Not. ONLY activating a plugin can activate it ?? If you download and activate on one site, and THEN network activate, it’s fine. Just note that should you later network DEActivate it, it remains active on any site that had individually activated it before network activation.

    The reason you had a problem was you deleted without deactivating. That left fingers of code in the DB. By reactivating and network deactivating, you cleaned that out.

    Okay. I think I understand now. Thank you for moderating this.

    Hello,
    this thread seems to be the right one for my question! I’ve installed WP in multisite mode and i planned to add two different type of sites:
    – one: an “e-commerce” site using the wp-commerce plugin
    – many: “customer” sites used by different clients

    The question is: there is a way to enable the wp-commerce plugin ONLY for the “e-commerce” site and NOT for the others?

    Many thanks in advance,
    r

    I know that you can activate and deactivate plugins on the individual sites. (I don’t know how to remove them from individual sites.)

    If you Network Activate a plugin, then it is installed and active for all sites.

    If you don’t Network Active a plugin, then it is installed for all sites, but each site has to individually activate it.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    (I don’t know how to remove them from individual sites.)

    You need another plugin for that.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/multisite-plugin-manager/

    Many thanks for all your replay, especially to Ipstenu. The plugin you propose is exaclty what i need.
    r

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