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How do I add a settings page on a MultiSite without destroying the dashboard?

Ryunosuke — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:17:39 +0000

Hi all

So I’ve been writing simple plugins for a while and creating settings pages for them for a while also. Then I installed a multisite and my plugins worked perfectly… but my dashboards do not. In fact, my dashboard(s) get entirely nuked… ??

Please have a look at the code below:

include_once(plugins_url('settings.php', __FILE__));
include_once('settings.php');

If I use the first method then I am able to use Network Enable but I am not able to enable it on individual websites. On the flip side of the coin, if I use the latter method then I can install the plugin on individual websites but I can’t use Network Enable.

In both cases the plugin is enabled just fine and if I go to the site the plugin is functioning perfectly but when I try to go back to my dashboard all I see is an error about an unrecognised user and that is that… my entire dashboard is replaced by a white screen with a single error message on it. I have absolute 0 access to any part of my dashboard unless I open up either the individual website or the network dashboard, respectively, depending on which one I enabled the plugin on.

So, if I use network enable I can then open the dashboards of each individual site but have no access to the settings of the plugin nor the option to disable it. Alternatively, if I enable it on an individual website in my multisite then I no longer have access to the site’s dashboard AT ALL(!) but I can still get to the main dashboard, which doesn’t help me at all with getting into my subsite’s plugins section…

Once I click on the enable button (or network enable) the plugin functions as it should on the site(s) but if I want to get access to my dashboard again I need to ftp into my site and rename the plugin folder or delete it completely.

So my question to you is simply this: How do I properly include a settings file when I create a plugin for a multisite website?

Thanks for any support in this regard. Currently all my plugins have a “Supports multisite, just don’t use Network Enable” label slapped on top of it ??

For a sample of my code, see here: Asset Store affiliate link generator

Reply To: How do I add a settings page on a MultiSite without destroying the dashboard?

Bet Hannon — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:21:53 +0000

Hi mybadstudios!

I think you might get more traction for help over in the WP-Advanced forum, or the Hacks forum, which deals more with things like plugin development issues. This forum is mostly dealing with implementations of multisite. As a moderator, I can shift this topic over to either of those forums, but you might get a better response if you just create a new topic. ??

Reply To: How do I add a settings page on a MultiSite without destroying the dashboard?

Ryunosuke — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 06:32:51 +0000

Hi there.

Thanks for the suggestions. If you wouldn’t mind, would you please move this to whichever one you feel is more likely to get me a response? If I have to make a new post I’m just going to asking the exact same thing again so I don’t see any logic in retyping what could just be moved ??

Again, thanks for getting back to me with those suggestions. This is the single greatest WP mystery I have yet encountered and I would love to get an answer to this ??

Reply To: How do I add a settings page on a MultiSite without destroying the dashboard?

Bet Hannon — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:11:26 +0000

Ok. I’ll move you, but one of the ways that volunteers search for topics to answer is to look for no replies. If you don’t get an answer there, try reposting.