A network activated plugin only shows up on the Network Dashboard.
A non-network activated plugin shows up on all sites.
The SuperAdmin (you) always can see plugins.
It sounds like you’re trying to do something similar to http://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-a-network-enabled-plugin-on-individual-sites?replies=10
my site is really strange as I don’t know if this is how the setup is meant to be in multisites as somebody else installed it for me.
My site is the main site ‘site admin’ and to look at the other sites i switch over to ‘network admin’ fine.
ok, now for some reason my blog is linked to the network admin so i cannot install plugins via ‘site admin’ the only way i can install plugins is through the network admin and then when i activate the plugin it goes sitewide. if i deactivate a plugin; it deactivates my own plugin. does this make sense and is this right.
Can i change the status of my blog to super admin?????
my blog is linked to the network admin so i cannot install plugins via ‘site admin’ the only way i can install plugins is through the network admin
That’s how a network works 🙂 You’re okay there.
when i activate the plugin it goes sitewide
Ah, okay, you’re doing that … wrong. If you WANT a plugin network activated, that’s what you do. If you DON’T, go to the individual site’s plugin page (domain.com/sitename/wp-admin/plugins.php for example) and turn them on there 🙂
I just thought that as site admin i would be able to install plugins via my panel so it would not be network activated. Do i have to turn all the plugins off manually
is their a plugin that list all my multisite blogs and i can select all(aprt from my own) to turn off/deactivate the plugins so they don’t have the options
Sorry just realised my mistake.
I was looking at the blogs dashboard through the network admin which of course would show all the plugins.
i created a blog as a new user and the admin panel does not show any plugins.
Sorry
I just thought that as site admin i would be able to install plugins via my panel so it would not be network activated. Do i have to turn all the plugins off manually
No, that’s not how it works.
1) Network Plugins are Activated NETWORK wide. On for all sites. They DO NOT show up in the plugins list for the individual blogs and, as such, cannot be deactivated per-blog
2) Plugins that are NOT network activated can be activated per blog as they wish.
3) MU-PLUGINS are automatically on, all the time, for everyone, and no one can turn ’em off.
If you’d read the post I linked to, you’d already know there is not a plugin that can turn a plugin on for all sites BUT one (or two).
Go read http://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-a-network-enabled-plugin-on-individual-sites?replies=10
