multisite2masochist

I am having the same issues with a multi-site installation. Hope we can find a solution.

If you look in plugins/notibar/views/pages/home/home-notification-bar.php around line 33 you’ll see
echo wp_kses_post($textContent)
and that’s where they show the content from the text field in the customizer. You can replace that with another line of code. For example, I went to mysiteurl.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=wp_block and made a reusable block, got it’s id (it was 12216), and used it to replace the notibar content
echo get_post_field( 'post_content', 12216 )
so you could do something similar to put content from a shortcode or other plugin into notibar. There’s probably an elegant way to hook your shortcodes right in there but this is just a quick 5 minute look into, you can hack together a real solution starting there.

There are valid reasons to use this.

• If you have forked plugins and deploy updates to your site using git deployments. From that approach, you update your plugins and test, then push it out to the production environments. With a large network of sites you can deploy an update to hundreds of sites with one click. This plugin prevents the complications of one of your site owners trying to do updates themselves without first testing for conflicts and other issues.
• You have a cowboy admin that clicks update whenever they see it. If you have any complexities due to site customization, or conflicts between plugins, you can’t let this happen. This Plugin hides all that from that admin so that you can have “ownership” over the plugin updates. Yes you still have to be on top of it, but if multiple people need admin access to work together on a site this helps keep cowboys from making issues.
• Performance

I agree that in many cases this would not be advised for your average site. But it does serve a real purpose for people when they have a lot of hands in the pot, are updating plugins remotely, or have high volume sites with performance concerns. Rate the plugin on how well it works, not based on if you feel you need it. I am currently testing this out and other options for disabling updates because it has become an issue to be solved for one network of sites, and I’m grateful to these developers for putting their solution out here.