Title: Multisite problem Last modified: September 20, 2024 --- # Multisite problem * Resolved [joefryfoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joefryfoto/) * (@joefryfoto) * [1 year, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-problem-47/) * Network activate (I know it’s not done this way, but for added info) yields: “ Freesoul Deactivate Plugins can’t be activated networkwide, but only on each single site” * Individual prefix-extension subsites simply say “Network Only” * I believe this was working correctly on my prototype multisite, and I can’t think of any remarkable differences between the two. I only have a few plugins which I disabled to test. Makes me wonder if it’s some server config thing. Any ideas? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Thread Starter [joefryfoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joefryfoto/) * (@joefryfoto) * [1 year, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-problem-47/#post-18038220) * Added info: installation writes nothing into mu-plugins, which seems otherwise sound. Could some earlier backfire have written something into db to prevent this? Also, I went back to a previous working prototype to see that the subsites were all of format: *.example.com – that is, there were no subsites having their own domain name like my current site. I’ll try to test that out when I can. - This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by [joefryfoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joefryfoto/). * Plugin Author [Jose Mortellaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giuse/) * (@giuse) * [1 year, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-problem-47/#post-18040841) * Hi [@joefryfoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joefryfoto/) * thank you for reporting this issue and for the information. Can you help me better understand the issue? * This is what I understand: - You have a multisite installation - From the admin top bar you go to My Sites => Network Admin => Plugins (that should have an URL that looks like [https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/network/plugins.php](https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/network/plugins.php) - You click on “Network activate” on the action link of Freesoul Deactivate Plugins - You see the message “_Freesoul Deactivate Plugins can’t be activated networkwide, but only on each single site_.” * Is it right until here? * After you see that message I suppose FDP is kept disabled on the network, right? * Then you go to the plugins page of a subsite, and for Freesoul Deactivate Plugins you see “Network only” and you don’t see the action link “Activate”. Is it right? And it is not possible to activate Freesoul Deactivate Plugins, right? * But on another multisite installation you were able to activate FDP on each subsite, right? * Please, correct me if I’m wrong. * About your sentence “_installation writes nothing into mu-plugins_“. If you are not able to activate FDP, this is totally normal. FDP writes into the folder wp-content/mu-plugins only if you activate it. Please, let me know if you were able to activate FDP at least on a subsite of the network. * If I haven’t understood the issue, please add more details to help me better understand it. * In the meantime, I will do some tests with multisite installations taking into account also your last comment. I can anticipate that FDP doesn’t guarantee it works with different domains. The domain has to be only one. * Have a great day! * Jose * Thread Starter [joefryfoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joefryfoto/) * (@joefryfoto) * [1 year, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-problem-47/#post-18041842) * Jose everything you stated is correct. I thought I’d made a breakthrough and the problem was cookie-related, but I think I read something wrong, so I edited this comment. - This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by [joefryfoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joefryfoto/). * Plugin Author [Jose Mortellaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giuse/) * (@giuse) * [1 year, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-problem-47/#post-18042198) * Hi [@joefryfoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joefryfoto/) * I checked the code of the WordPress core, and it seems you can see the sentence“ Network only” only if in the main comments of the plugin main file you have “ Network: true”. In no other way. I think you can stop to investigate about cookies and so on. * Here the main comments of the main file of Freesoul Deactivate Plugins of the previous version 2.2.6: * ```wp-block-code