{"id":627,"date":"2011-11-18T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T20:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:37:22","slug":"handy-plugin-proper-network-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/handy-plugin-proper-network-activation\/","title":{"rendered":"Handy Plugin &#8211; Proper Network Activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever had a plugin that worked wonderfully in &#8220;single site&#8221; WordPress, but when switching to multi-user mode (WPMU), it doesn&#8217;t work on any other site than the initial site? Here&#8217;s why. And even better &#8220;there&#8217;s a plugin for that!&#8221; This handy plugin will make some of those stubborn plugins work beautifully under WPMU.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WordPress Plugin Proper Network Activation\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/proper-network-activation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/proper-network-activation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the plugin&#8217;s page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When running WordPress MultiSite, you have a very handy feature called network activation. It allows you to activate a plugin for the entire network of sites. The trouble is that it only does half the job.<\/p>\n<p>Some plugins have an install procedure that is meant to be run only on activation. However, when you do a network activation, that install procedure is only run for the current site. So, you end up with plugins not working properly on all the other sites.<\/p>\n<p>What this plugin does:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>when doing a network de\/activation, it triggers the de\/activation hook on all sites in the network<\/li>\n<li>when creating a new site, it triggers the activation hook for all active network plugins on that site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever had a plugin that worked wonderfully in &#8220;single site&#8221; WordPress, but when switching to multi-user mode (WPMU), it doesn&#8217;t work on any other site than the initial site? Here&#8217;s why. And even better &#8220;there&#8217;s a plugin for that!&#8221; This handy plugin will make some of those stubborn plugins work beautifully under WPMU. http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/proper-network-activation\/ From &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Handy Plugin &#8211; Proper Network Activation\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/handy-plugin-proper-network-activation\/#more-627\" aria-label=\"Read more about Handy Plugin &#8211; Proper Network Activation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-plugins","category-wordpress","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}