Yes. That’s by design 🙂 Only the network admin can edit themes abd plugins.
You can upload new themes and plugins via the Network Admin as well, not per-site.
My current configuration does not seem by design then. Like I said, I can upload new themes and plugins on my subdomains but I cannot on my root site. In fact I just went ahead and network deactivated all of my plugins through the network dashboard and it did not affect any of the subdomains sites. I then went ahead and reactivated some and also did not affect the subdomains. The root site on the other hand did get affected. When I deactivated, the plugins all showed inactive on the root site. When I activated, the root site only shows the plugins that are inactive. The plugins did get installed but I am not able to deactivate individually on my root site dashboard.
Is the way that the plugins are working, the way that multisite is designed to work? How is it that my subdomains don’t get affected by anything i do on my network dashboard, just my root site is affected? The fact that I can control my subdomains individually is perfectly fine with me, in fact, I prefer it that way. I was just wondering why it is not the same situation with my root site?
Maybe I installed multisite incorrectly. I installed multisite and then I went to my hosting company and installed wordpress on each individual subdomain. That could be why only my root site is affected by my network dashboard.
This may be a dumb question but do those “inactive” plugins bog down my site? In other words, if I did not have those plugins installed, would my site load faster. I have several plugins that are just sitting there not activated. Should I just uninstall or does it not make a difference as long as they are not activated?
Like I said, I can upload new themes and plugins on my subdomains but I cannot on my root site
Uh. No. You can’t. You’ve done something really weird. You can’t upload themes and plugins anywhere but domain.com/wp-admin/network
That is locked down how Multisite works. You sure you’re running Multisite?
(inactive plugins rarely slow a site down. Most of us delete them for security reasons.)
haha, apparently I am running multisite on just my main site. I feel pretty dumb.
Well that makes sense as to why i am experiencing these symptoms. I guess that I will just uninstall my multisite since it is only running on my main site and therefore it is pointless for me to have it.
Well thank you so much for your help.
