Plugins not showing up in admin plugin list

  • Resolved Dave Clements

    (@thewanderingbrit)


    13 years, 11 months ago

    Ever since upgrading to WPMU a few months back, the plugin list in my admin area (on any of my network sites) is missing a good number of the plugins that are installed on my sites. Everything was fine before I went to WPMU.

    If I search for an installed plugin that is not showing up in the list, it will sometimes come up and sometimes not. The plugins are still active and largely working from what I can tell, but they’re not showing up in the list, so it’s harder to activate/deactivate etc.

    The plugins aren’t nested incorrectedly in wp-content/plugins/ and the permissions on every folder is 0755.

    Any idea what might be causing them to be omitted from the plugin list?

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  • What shows up when you visit /wp-admin/network/plugins.php on your site? That should list everything installed in your network.

    The plugin pages on each individual site may not show all of the plugins, depending on how they are coded and activated.

    Thread Starter Dave Clements

    (@thewanderingbrit)

    It seems that all the plugins show up on that page.

    On one of my network sites for instance, the All-In-One SEO Pack plugin is definitely installed and active (because the dialogue shows up on every post), but the plugin doesn’t show in the plugin list.

    Does it show as network activated in the /wp-admin/network/plugins.php page? If yes, that is why it doesn’t show on the per site plugin list.

    but the plugin doesn’t show in the plugin list.

    If it is network activated, it will not show.

    This seems to be a change in the way it works. You select Network Admin in the upper right corner by the log out, and then you can get the list of all the plugins for the whole network from the left menu. Once you network activate them, or delete them, you then go back to the upper right corner where the Network Admin Link was, and it now says Site Admin.

    When you click to go back to the sites, it does not show items that are activated network wide in the individual site plugin lists, only mostly the ones left to be activated or deactivated for each site. You can’t delete them or network activate/deactivate them there, you must go back to the Network list. I remember before you basically had the master list in every site’s plugin list.

    I just upgraded today and I at first thought it was all messed up and I would have to restore my backup. I don’t know if there were some instructions on this, but I must have not known where. It actually makes more sense that way, as does the top bar to switch between all the sites and admins.

    Thread Starter Dave Clements

    (@thewanderingbrit)

    Ahhhhh, I think that’s it. Well that’s a bit annoying. Since many plugin authors use the plugin list to link to settings pages and the link, it would still be useful to see the plugins in the list. I hope WordPress will consider reversing this.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Since many plugin authors use the plugin list to link to settings pages and the link

    They should ALSO have a sidebar link. Both, not just the plugin-page. If they don’t, send them a note to tell them ‘Hey, your plugin works on MultiSite BUT…’ ??

    Since many plugin authors use the plugin list to link to settings pages and the link, it would still be useful to see the plugins in the list. I hope WordPress will consider reversing this.

    Probably not.

    Why? Becasue many plugins that are built to be network activated have menus that are inaccessible to users who are not Super Admins.

    You don’t network activate every plugin you can find. Just the ones that call for it.

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