Best Plugin to manage Plugins?

I wonder where the idea that YD Network Wide Options won’t support sites of more than 40 blogs comes from? This is just plain false: the plugin has been developed for a site of more than 100 blogs in the first place. It will support an unlimited amount of blogs if system performance and memory allow fast-enough option replication.

It is also false that global settings will automatically override individual blog settings: this is an option in the plugin settings (it can either overwrite existing settings, or leave them be).

Please check out a plugin’s actual features before giving biased advice. Contacting the plugin author might be a starting point. YD Network Wide Options is a completely free plugin and although maybe not perfect for every use, it is absolutely free software, which is sometimes troubling for other individuals promoting commercial solutions. Please consider checking out the free alternative first, and if some feature is missing, donating is a great way to improve the software so that everyone in the community can benefit from the improvement.

(a bit tired of reading false reviews of my work)

As far as I know, it was on the readme of the first rendition?

My apologies if that is not the case.

@ron: Yeah sure, at one time the Earth did not even exist, too 😀

The point is, a “bugfix” statement in open source code means just that: it has been fixed… a very long time ago. Not to mention that the memory leak that existed when changing a lot of options came from the WP core function and not the plugin itself, so any extension following the same path would have had to get around the same wall.

I don’t get your point about volunteers. I’m a volunteer too, and easily reachable. Volunteers can refrain from stating judgements about third-party plugins they did not even try out. I have no idea whatsoever on what other solutions around are worth, because I did not try them, especially the commercial ones. I guess they are just great and I respect the people that developed them. But not knowing them, I just avoid giving any kind of judgement. Users of WP-hosted extensions can give stars to rate the actual usefulness of a plugin, they should know because they’re actually using it. 100% of the users of this plugin have given it 5 stars. I guess that means in someway it works OK for them.

@andrea: I don’t mind, Ron is right it’s hard to keep up-to-date on so many subjects. I would never even have hit on this forum thread if a potential user did not come forward on my developer’s blog and ask if the plugin worked at all. So here is the opportunity for me to state that yes, it works pretty well on a few productions environments that I know about, and the latest version is even cooler because it can also replicate custom table data in addition to any WP option. (meaning some of the plugin settings that could not be replicated up to now are now available: for example, I have WPML auto-installing network-wide on a site.)

And to make it short: it’s free, so the best way to know if it’ll work for you is to just try it out!

@ydubois – My point about volunteers is that you are expecting the volunteers here to contact you and/or test your plugin prior to responding to threads. Expecting the folks here to keep the contact info and/or test 12,600+ plugins is an unreasonable expectation.

You could assist the folks here by subscribing to the feed of your plugins forum posts which you can find here – http://wordpress.org/tags/multisite-plugin-manager. Once you are subscribed you can then respond to the thread with what you deem to be accurate/current information.