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1. billdennis5
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   First, off, thanks to the talented moderator Andrea_r for the wonderful held she gave me in getting by Multisite installation up and running. Kudos. Visit her site and buy her books: http://wpebooks.com/

   Second, in the course of following her advice, I am cleaning out spam and removing old, old inactive blogs.

   But I have encountered a few who I think need to remain available, should the users decide to start up again.

   It's fairly obvious what it means to delete a blog. Done that for a lot of them. But what is the difference between "archive" and "Deactivate." And which should I use if I do not want to necessarily break any incoming links to their posts, but want to cut off the possibility of spam comments and spam registrations.

   Oh, and is there any sort of plugin that would let me see which themes and which plugins are being used across an entire Multisite installation?

2. Tim Moore
   Code Wrangler
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm not really sure of the difference between Archive and Deactivate. On my installs, the same result occurs, but then I haven't checked how the two options effect content as I'm not usually worried about that when I'm archiving/deactivating.

   For your last question, check these plugins out:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-plugin-stats/
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-theme-usage-info/

3. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I THINK it's this:

   Archive remains up and available for people to read. Read-only.

   Deactivate and it vanishes from front end view, but is still on the back end for you to clean up.

   Delete is ... well yeah.

4. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   If you archive a site the super admin still sees it when logged in.

   everyone else does not.

   but want to cut off the possibility of spam comments and spam registrations.

   For the comments, just do like I said - visit those blogs and turn off the comments in the blog settings.

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