Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] multisite installation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] multisite installation

 *  Resolved [islandcastaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/islandcastaway/)
 * (@islandcastaway)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-multisite-installation/)
 * I am looking for a multisite installation guide.
 * Im not sure if this plugin gets activated just on the main site, networked activated,
   or can be activated on a per site basis.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [Richard Venable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvenable/)
 * (@rvenable)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-multisite-installation/#post-1572701)
 * I have similar questions. I just recently installed W3 Total Cache on my Multi
   site installation.
 * I originally activated it site wide, but then the settings page appeared on each
   blog and it seemed that each blog had to be configured separately. Also, there
   appeared to be a separate directory in my wp-content directory for each blog.
 * That definitely wasn’t what I wanted, so I deactivated it site wide and reactivated
   on just my main blog. Now of course it appears only my main blog is getting cached.
 * So it doesn’t appear that W3 Total Cache can do what I want it to do, which is
   to have one settings page that applies the same settings to every site in my 
   installation, and of course not clutter my wp-content directory with a directory
   for each site.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-multisite-installation/#post-1572719)
 * > Im not sure if this plugin gets activated just on the main site, networked 
   > activated, or can be activated on a per site basis.
 * Per site. If you configure the “root” blow, it’s settings are copied to subsequent
   blogs upon activation. Or you can export/import settings if you wish.
 *  [binh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binh/)
 * (@binh)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-multisite-installation/#post-1572796)
 * Why not upgrade it to be multisite compatible? Wp Super Cache can do that pretty
   well but it doesn’t have DB cache. So sad.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] multisite installation’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/w3-total-cache/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1041806)
 * [W3 Total Cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/w3-total-cache/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/w3-total-cache/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/w3-total-cache/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/w3-total-cache/reviews/)

 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [binh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binh/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-multisite-installation/#post-1572796)
 * Status: resolved