How are Plugins handled in 3.1? Network control or individual control?

  • Erik

    (@southernutahautism)


    14 years ago

    I did a test install on a local box of WP 3.1 multisite, and got my sites all loaded and everything appears to be working.

    But I am curious about how plugins are now handled in a multisite environment, I can see all my installed and active plugins from the network admin, but when I’m in an individual site, only certain plugins are listed. The site shows the plugins are active on the front end, and have the options down in the settings menu, but aren’t on the plugins page on a per-site basis.

    So is there some sort of big change as to how plugins are handled on a site by site basis and the network admin, versus on each individual site? I can’t quite seem to figure out how this is intended to work. In the main network admin plugins page, I have maybe 25 active plugins, but then on each site, the plugins page might not have any active plugins, it only shows the inactive ones. Then if I active those, it’s on a per site basis again.

    Is there something I’m missing about how plugins, multisite, and super-admins work together now in 3.1?

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  • A) Any plugins that are setup to be “Network Only” and plugins that are already network-active will only show up in the list within “Network Admin”. They will not show up in the list of plugins in “Site Admin”.

    B) The lists of plugins are now paginated (this threw me a few times), so you may just be looking at the first page of plugins.

    So is there some sort of big change as to how plugins are handled on a site by site basis and the network admin, versus on each individual site?

    Only with not showing the network activated plugins on the plugins list. that’s it.

    the plugins still *function* the same as they always did. Just the visibility of them – if activated network wide – has changed.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    And for B) YOu can change the number of plugins to show ?? It defaults to 20.

    Click on screen options (the bitty tab on the upper right) and change it as you need.

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