Multisite Plugin Manager

by Aaron Edwards

Description

Plugin management for WordPress Multisite that supports the native plugins page and the WPMU DEV Pro Sites plugin! Used on thousands of multisite installs across the web.
Previously known as WPMU Plugin Manager, it uses a backend options page to adjust plugin permissions for all the sites in your network.

Select what plugins sites have access to
Choose plugins to Auto-Activate for all new blogs
Mass activate/deactivate a plugin on all sites in your network (Very Handy!)
Assign special plugin access permissions for specific sites in your network
And as Super Admin, you can override all these to activate specific plugins on the sites you choose!
Removes the plugin meta row links (Version, Author, Plugin) and any update messages for blog admins

Also, if you use the excellent Pro Sites plugin from WPMU DEV you will be able to charge for access to certain plugins!

A free plugin by Aaron Edwards of UglyRobot Web Development.

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Installation

To Install:

Download the plugin file
Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
Upload the /plugin-manager/ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
Visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate it there.

To Configure Network Wide Options

Visit Network Admin -> Plugins -> Plugin Management
Select what kind of access each plugin should have. You can choose:
- No access (default)
- All Users
- All Users (Auto-Activate) – activates the plugin for all new blogs
You may also mass activate/deactivate a plugin on all sites in your network (Very Handy!)

To Override Plugin Access Per Site

Visit the Network Admin -> Sites list
Click the “Edit” link for the site you wish to modify
Look at the bottom of the “Settings” tab screen for the per blog options

Screenshots

The plugin management admin page
Overriding allowed plugins per site

Faq

Can I use this plugin for non-multisite WP installs?

No, this plugin is only compatible (and useful) with Multisite installs.

Do I need the Pro Sites plugin installed?

Not at all, but if you install the Pro Sites plugin from WPMU DEV the options to charge for access to certain plugins will appear in the dropdowns.

Contribute on GitHub

Reviews

Nice help for multisite

By apollo13themes on March 13, 2019

This plugin helped me a lot when I had to reactivate one plugin on over 100 sites because accidentally I have activated it for the whole Network previously. Good job! Air.

working

By wasanajones on December 4, 2018

working

Excellent

By Trax2K11 on May 4, 2018

Does what it say and works wonders. i couldn't imagine using Multisite without this plugin.

Not one of the showing of my 25 plugins

By GeaVox on January 15, 2018

Shame, because I would have donated - even though the assumption that people are "making money out of the plugin" is rather wishful thinking.

Pretty much perfect. Greatly improves on WordPress Core.

By Mina Nielsen (moorlater) on December 6, 2017

Apart from a tidy-up of the user interface, this is a perfect little plugin. Indispensable for managing a multisite. Could only be improved by moving the site-specific settings into their own tab, alongside themes, when editing a single site in Network Admin. But, you know, y'all have a key combination for "skip to the bottom of the page", which gets you there under Settings, so... 🙂

Plugin works well but interface needs improvement

By Ashley (NoseGraze) on October 16, 2017

I haven't had any issues with the functionality of the plugin, but the interface for granting plugin access to individual sites really needs improvement. Right now it's shoved under the "Settings" tab when editing an individual site, but when a site has a lot of options, this can make the page HUGE. The list of plugins should really be in its own "Plugins" tab, much like "Themes".

thanks

By johaneto on July 20, 2017

last review was incorrect

Database error and after deleting the new MU, all images have been deleted !

By bartom34 on June 28, 2017

I installed the plugin on my MU. I tried to add a new site with another language. I got a database error so I had to delete the plugin files with FTP. After doing that, I deleted the fresh new website which was useless. Bad surprise, all the /upload/ file from my main website has been emptied. No more images, everything has been deleted.

Great Plugin, Makes Managing Plugins on WP Multisite Much Better than Core

By chenryahts on January 7, 2017

This plugin is awesome, thank you! Do you have a place for feature requests? I think it would be awesome if you could trigger plugins programmatically, like whether or not a specific plugin and/or theme was activated? It would make it easier to manage 'complementary' plugins (e.g. If they activated 'Woocommerce', it would also activate 'Woosubscriptions' or something. Thanks again!

Awesome and should be part of the Multisite Core

By greenling on September 3, 2016

Anyone who has a multisite with independent users as I do absolutely needs this plugin! As the network admin, I have total control of which plugins each site can see, and if they chose to activate, they can.

My only "problem" was MY stupid error, I originally had not checked the"plugins" box under "enable administration menu" in Network Admin Settings to allow sub-domain admins to manage plugins.

Big thanks for Aaron!

Changelog

3.1.6

Fix: Add WP CLI plugin list compatibility @props Ryan Williams

3.1.5

Fix: PHP warning in some cases when it auto activates on new blog signups
Fix: Missing header errors on some installs when activating

3.1.4

Fix: Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() while activating plugins

3.1.3

Fix: PHP warnings for some auto-activate plugins on new blog creation
New: Prevent running mass activate/deactivate routines in large networks

3.1.2

Important reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability fix! Props Matthew Fuller @Mozilla

3.1.1

Readme updates
Pro Sites support

3.1

Fix auto-activate for new blogs

3.0

Complete rewrite for WP 3.1