Title: Codex &#8211; Network Activation. How to?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

---

# Codex – Network Activation. How to?

 *  [mspyratos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mspyratos/)
 * (@mspyratos)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codex-network-activation-how-to/)
 * Hello!
    So what about **Network Activation?**
 * I am looking on how to enable my plugin to be `Network Activated` if needed. 
   I always come across the phrase `Network Activation`, but unfortunately, always
   from the admin (user) perspective. How about the developers?
 * If I am not wrong Codex does not mention anything.
    So, how do I code my plugin
   to be network activated?
 * **Simple**
 * My plugin is the simplest one. No options, no settings pages.
    It just adds a`
   metabox` below the `Create new post` page (along with some scripts).
 * It works fine, but when someone tries to enable it across the Network, it fails.
   It gets to each Blog’s Plugin section, but as a deactivated plugin.
 * **Looping Blogs**
 * So is looping through each Blog the solution?
    [http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/write-a-plugin-for-wordpress-multi-site](http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/write-a-plugin-for-wordpress-multi-site)
 * And if yes, what is the function that should be called from inside that loop?
 * **Please**
 * Try to make sense out of the Multisite chaos for us developers.
    Any help, will
   be very much appreciated…
 * Thank you! 🙂

The topic ‘Codex – Network Activation. How to?’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [network activate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/network-activate/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [mspyratos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mspyratos/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codex-network-activation-how-to/)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics
