Multisite – plugin buttons for non-network-active plugins

  • Simon

    (@svenlohuis)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    When using a multi-site environment there are plug-ins active on some sites and some not.

    When editing the menu I can only edit the one of the active plug-ins. When saving the updated menu, the menu settings of a menu item that is not there, the settings of the not active plug-in menu items are lost. This is quit frustrating for a multi-site environment that has not all plug-ins by default active.

    Is it possible to keep menu items (previously saved) editable in de editor even when the plug-in is not active on that specific site?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-editor/

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  • Plugin Author Janis Elsts

    (@whiteshadow)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Is it possible to keep menu items (previously saved) editable in de editor even when the plug-in is not active on that specific site?

    Sorry, that is not currently possible.

    Perhaps you could use per-site menu settings instead of one global admin menu? You can do that by clicking the “Settings” button on the menu editor page and changing “Multisite settings” to “Per-site”. That way editing the menu on a site that doesn’t have the plugin you mentioned wouldn’t affect sites that do have it.

    Another option would be to create a “scratch” site that has all plugins active and then edit the admin menu on that site only.

    Thread Starter Simon

    (@svenlohuis)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    That last one is a good one. Will doe that!

    Perhaps a idea to add this feature in the future? You could fetch the data of not active menu items from the saved menu settings.

    Plugin Author Janis Elsts

    (@whiteshadow)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Perhaps a idea to add this feature in the future? You could fetch the data of not active menu items from the saved menu settings.

    The problem with that approach is that it would force the user to manually clean up the admin menu every time they deactivate or uninstall a plugin or theme.

    And in case you’re wondering: it is not possible to reliably determine which menu item was created by which plugin, so AME can’t selectively remove only those items that belonged to uninstalled plugins.

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